Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A starving poor child once asked his mother, 'What's Christmas, mom?' The mother replied: 'That's a good question, but I really don't… — Jean-Paul Malfatti Copy Share Image
Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark. — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I… — Jonathan Aitken Copy Share Image
“Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother’s voice took all of the grief out of the words and left… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When you get so interested in hating things, you'll miss even the things you love. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
“Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
You listen to the mind, you become miserable - otherwise, this today is paradise! And there is no other paradise, this today… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
A church that is deeply aware of it's misery and nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all sufficient… — Michael Horton Copy Share Image
He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them . — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak,… — Peter Tork Copy Share Image
One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that in this fiery ordeal, in this suffering, misery, and woe, the South is but undergoing a purification by… — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
We must look deeply into the nature of our volition to see whether it is pushing us in the direction of liberation… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom. — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
Forget horror icon, Kety Bates is an icon. She's an acting icon. I was raised on so many of her films, everything… — Matt Bomer Copy Share Image
