Misery is caused for the most part, not by a heavy crush of disaster, but by the corrosion of less visible evils,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The fact that we became a nation and immediately separated church and state - it has saved us from all the misery… — Dumas Malone Copy Share Image
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery. — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
When we follow our dreams, we may give the impression to others that we are miserable and unhappy. But what others think… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery. — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
When you humiliate someone you're not neither stronger nor more proud or more powerful you are just more miserable! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is weakness, says the Vedanta, which is the cause of all misery in this world. Weakness is the one cause of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When I first went to interview for 'Misery,' they were saying things like, 'You're not Michelle Pfeiffer, you know.' And I just… — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Love is responsible for nearly every kind of insanity in the world though greed, vanity, and pure meanness contribute their portion to… — P.N. Elrod Copy Share Image
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
Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning… — Martyn Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved. — Cornelius Nepos Copy Share Image
Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For if Jack Buggit could escape from the pickle jar, if a bird with a broken neck could fly away, what else… — Annie Proulx Copy Share Image
We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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