Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something in the world,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery. — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that… — Robert Emmet 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
I cannot accept that to be realistic means to tolerate misery, violence and hate. I do not believe that the hungry man… — Oscar Arias Copy Share Image
If the religious spirit be ever mentioned in any historical narration, we are sure to meet afterwards with a detail of the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If Putin and those around him had been smart enough to go in a different direction... The country was ready. The conditions… — Vladimir Voinovich Copy Share Image
I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
Knowledge is like a knife. In the hands of a well-balanced adult it is an instrument for good of inestimable value; but… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery, and in such a world hopes could only be irrational. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I smile a lot because I don't want people to see how broken I am inside, but sometimes I wish that someone… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
Single is not a status. It is a word that best describes a person who is strong enough to live and enjoy… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
“Are you what is called a lucky man? Well, you are sad every day. Each day has its great grief or its… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A man of fashion does not like to be reckoned poor, no more than he likes to be reckoned unhappy. We none… — Elizabeth Inchbald Copy Share Image
Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery? — Squidward Tentacles Copy Share Image
There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
“She gave him a strange maternal grin. For the first time, clearly, the thought surfaced in Paul Sheldon’s mind: I am in… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image