Humanity looks upon Jesus the Nazarene as a poor-born Who suffered misery and humiliation with all of the weak. And He is… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings! — Thomas Haynes Bayly Copy Share Image
But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery. — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ...… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“For a few minutes the anxiety that tormented him had vanished, leaving his mind as serene as the beauty he looked at.… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
I think to write fiction, this is just how I see it, you have to have a powerful need/desire to connect. I… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Nobody wants to be alone in misery. Cara experienced no shame in admitting that need. Not only did she not want to… — Christa Parravani Copy Share Image
There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions - and unwanted… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe,… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
Do you sometimes feel that you just can't take one more thing? Even in your misery, be mindful that the very weight… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
