The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it's the gloom—the cold, dark air—that receives notice. We… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
Life: in all it's pain, misery, grandiosity and glory. I sing for myself, yet if others truly find inspiration through my words,… — John O'Callaghan Copy Share Image
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those… — Chrissie Hynde Copy Share Image
The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery,… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
“The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains…My advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
When I stop doing the things that make me unhappy, I will experience the happiness that is that natural state of being.… — Hubert Selby, Jr Copy Share Image
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When you share your misery, it will not diminish. When you fail to share your joy, it diminishes. Share your problems only… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Society may be formed so as to exist without crime, without poverty, with health greatly improved, with little, if any misery, and… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Don't make your wedding a pleasant memory in this life but a source of misery in the next. Make it an eternally… — Omar Suleiman Copy Share Image
“IN THE HANDS OF MAN He who creates a poison, also has the cure. He who creates a virus, also has the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one… — Trent Reznor Copy Share Image
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“The next day he woke up feeling like he'd been unshackled from his fat, like he'd been washed clean from his misery,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other.… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I shall rejoin myself to my native country, with new attachments, and with exaggerated esteem for its advantages; for though there is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By anticipation we sugar misery and enjoy happiness before they are in being. We can set the sun and stars forward, or… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“She went to bed with men as frequently as she could. It was the only place where she could find what she… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer?… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
Are you happy in your misery? Resting peaceful in desolation? It’s the final tie that binds us The sole source of my… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate wherever the Government assumes a… — James Madison Copy Share Image
He felt he had lost it for good, he knew what it was to have been in communication with her, and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance… — John Cleveland 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
I'd rather the league put me out of my misery than look like a quitter and come out and say, 'I don't… — Darren Waller Copy Share Image
Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence… — Maurice Strong Copy Share Image
Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will… — Georges Duhamel Copy Share Image
War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My suggestion is that there's no way out of the human condition. Sex, death, marriage, children, parents, illness. There's no way out.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Communism is born out of misery, and if the West does not show more understanding, those people will take up arms and… — Francois Mitterrand Copy Share Image
![“Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche” quote by Victor Hugo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ba3/victor-hugo-32_character_joie-est-mon-caractere-c-est-la-faute-a_1111634.jpg)
