“On this side of the cross misery persists, but the scales are tipped in favor of joy.” — Ed Welch Copy Share Image
A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“My thoughts reel for something to save me from falling into the invisible pit of misery” — Dave Cenker Copy Share Image
Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“I like to believe that there is an extra warm corner of hell for these fuckers who traffic in emotional misery.” — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Any kind of misery there is in the worldly life; the cause of it all is moha (illusory attachement).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art. — Josh Peck Copy Share Image
Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness… — Prince Copy Share Image
“Misery is an unpleasant painful experience (ashata vedaniya); result of misery is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“[...] [T]here was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is one of the great ironies of human history that some mortals with incorrect understanding of God and life's purposes sometimes… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
There's always a fundamental misery that's with me that I always relate to some bit of loss or something. I don't know… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
O witches, O misery, O hate, to you has my treasure been entrusted! I contrived to purge my mind of all human… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
IT is reported of Margaret Fuller that she said she accepted the universe. "Gad, she'd better!" retorted Carlyle. Carlyle himself did not… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
As I give thought to the matter, I find four causes for the apparent misery of old age; first it withdraws us… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“In the worldly life, what is misery? It is the pain created from wrong suspicions.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
If God himself wills such misery on people whom I love, then I say I will deal with him — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
“All of us prayed for normal. But so far, normal only meant more misery.” — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone’s misery is their own stupidity and laziness.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Refusal to accept the flow of the world is the root of all misery. — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Where, but in the simplicity of the Gospel, can you hear about both the dignity of man and the misery of man? — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand. — Piper Kerman Copy Share Image
I see nothing for the treatment of my misery but the melancholy and very local palliative of articulate art. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
What a miserable thing life is: you're in clover; only the clover isn't good enough. — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image