Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly… — Homer Copy Share Image
The consideration and kindness shown by unfortunates to each other are surprising to those who have no experience with this class of… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Misery is, by her own nature, a passing phase of sorrow, one that does not linger uninvited. Her sojourns seem to be… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working… — Bob Black Copy Share Image
If you can't control it or change it there's no point in stressing yourself over it. Just focus on something that you… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, it’s a formula… — Suzanne Selfors Copy Share Image
“And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything now. Anything I wanted. I had… — Rachel Ward Copy Share Image
Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that,… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It is forever unspeakable that man must suffer so. But you learn to control yourself, to work efficiently. ... I used to… — Elliott Merrick Copy Share Image
A Prayer Refuse to fall down If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down. If you cannot refuse to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
To a child who dies, and to the parents of this child, will you speak, if religion consoles them, in praise of… — Andre Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has… — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Life is hard enough. Don't go around making others lives miserable just because you can, you don't know what they've been through… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says, 'Nothing good came of this' is… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
The best anti-depressant pill for me would be one the size of a house so you could drop it on me and… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
“Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for… — Jon Crosby Copy Share Image
Some people must have no other job than to make others miserable and unhappy. But that's alright… I've heard that Karma pays… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You pile of stones, you waste, you desolation, I'll stuff you with misery till it comes out of your eyes. I'll change… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“She had created her own misery. Had welcomed her own destruction. Had cast her own emotional illusions, believing in them until they… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“I started out believing that life was made just so the world would have some way to think about itself, but that… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Delicacy of taste has the same effect as delicacy of passion; it enlarges the sphere both of our happiness and our misery. — David Hume Copy Share Image
The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“…falling in love is a state of mental misery which has a restricting, impoverishing, and paralyzing effect upon the development of our… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“Anyone who says "we must try to understand" those who make life miserable for those undeserving of misery is abiding and abetting… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
“No one understands another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. . . . My music is the product of my talent and… — Franz Schubert Copy Share Image
But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
We make very little progress when we strive to conquer baser instincts in a good mood. However, vast strides are possible when… — Sivaya Subramuniyaswami Copy Share Image
If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained.… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
“Shaun couldn’t hold the sigh back. The disgustingly shaded contents of the pint glass were going to be his only company. His… — Sharon Stevenson Copy Share Image
The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst… — George Eliot 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
