Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“I can understand the ignorant masses loving to soak themselves in drink—oh, yes, it's very shocking that they should, of course—very shocking… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Prepare yourself for the coming astral journey of death by daily riding in the balloon of God-perception. Through delusion you are perceiving… — Lahiri Mahasaya Copy Share Image
I have been manipulated, and I have in turn manipulated others, by recording their response to suffering and misery. So there is… — Don McCullin Copy Share Image
In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I loved you madly; in the distasteful work of the day, in the wakeful misery of the night, girded by sordid realities,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
When happiness gets into your system, it is bound to break out on your face. While money can't buy happiness it certainly… — Adi Da Copy Share Image
Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
We get caught. How? Not by what we give but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love:… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I know not why any one but a school boy in his declamation would whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
“Abandoned. The word alone sends shudders down a sensitive spine, troubling the thoughts of pained souls as their hurt swells in ripples.… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
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
A modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limit of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on edge by the… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
The offence is what is improperly called the death of an infant, who has ceased to be, before knowing what existence is,… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“Take the responsibility into your own hands, it is your life. So do whatsoever you like to do, ant never do anything… — Osho Copy Share Image
Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
He who wishes to revenge injuries by reciprocal hatred will live in misery. But he who endeavors to drive away hatred by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything comes out of nothingness and goes back into nothingness. Hence there is no need for attachment, because attachment will bring misery.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cup of life was poisoned forever, and although the sun shone upon me, as upon the happy and gay of heart,… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in the darkness of insanity, I ask myself Is all hope lost?… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“Before you are much older...you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
“He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had forgotten… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Pride counterbalances all our miseries, for it either hides them, or, if it discloses them, boasts of that disclosure. Pride has such… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Poetry Is a Destructive Force" That's what misery is, Nothing to have at heart. It is to have or nothing. It is… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I'm against American corporations buying politicians to remove limits to greed, capitalizing on other people's misery, actively creating misery on which to… — Greg Saunier 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
Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so?… — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
My own view on religion is that of Lucretius. I regard it as a disease born of fear and as a source… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That is Buddha's meaning of nirvana: to be free from life and death, to be free from desire. The moment you are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! However, if I must suffer, I will endeavour to suffer in silence. There… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image