There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Boredom!!! Shooting!!! Shelling!!! People being killed!!! Despair!!! Hunger!!! Misery!!! Fear!!! That's my life! The life of an innocent eleven-year-old schoolgirl!! A schoolgirl… — Zlata Filipović Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
There is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery. — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
“I hate and have always hated the word therapist. I detest the idea that my work, if it is work at all,… — DeSales Harrison Copy Share Image
Recalling the aftermath of her father's death from alcoholism at age 42, this memoirist reminisces: I couldn't deny that our life was… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
“One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, 'Why am I… — June Carter Cash Copy Share Image
There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Arise O lion-heart! Awake, O great soldier! Misery has come upon the world. It is wailing for help. It is wailing for… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“O sirs, how many souls, then, have every one of us been guilty of damning! What a number of our neighbours and… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart — John Adams Copy Share Image
The worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
there is ten times more in the world than would maintain all in yet unknown luxury. Yet how much misery there is… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. — Zhang Yimou Copy Share Image
Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot -… — Audrey Hepburn Copy Share Image
(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any… — Samuel Clarke Copy Share Image
Ah, Evelyn and Vivian, I love you both, I love you for your sad lives, the empty misery of your coming home… — John Fante Copy Share Image
I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world,… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery… — Nigel Calder Copy Share Image
Let me tell you a little bit about demons. They love pain and other people’s misery. They lie when it suits them… — Brenna Yovanoff Copy Share Image
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
