“money came from human misery and death and despair, as always it does.” — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery. — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic… — Georgia Harkness Copy Share Image
The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty. — Tanith Lee Copy Share Image
It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. — Euripides Copy Share Image
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Buddha, tends to suggest a different solution: Wanting is the cause of all human misery. Learn to want less. Accept that life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer?… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
“Still, despite the satisfaction of their surface lives, Cora Grovians share in full measure the pain that is the basis of all… — Lynn Hall Copy Share Image
“This is about a very few very rich, very greedy individuals getting ever richer, at the expense of human misery and suffering… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in… — Isaac Bonewits Copy Share Image
Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of… — Saul Leiter Copy Share Image
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
“I wandered aimlessly through this muddy lane bespattered with blood, fragments of the past detached themselves and floated listlessly before my eyes,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“And then there was pain and blood and tears, all those things that cause suffering and revolt, the killing of Françoise, the… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery. — Michael Harrington Copy Share Image
“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.” — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
“Often the depths of human misery can be found amongst legions of happy people.” — Russ Woody Copy Share Image
“The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“some of them were desperate, they starve themselves thin or pump their breasts full of silicon, had their noses cut off. Think… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure. — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God. — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image