What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous. — Anonymous 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
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Any attempt to control one's mind inflicts misery on the controller and the controlled — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief. — Roger Chamberlain Copy Share Image
“They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.” — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
Your problems wont be my problem, And they never will. its funny how ppl always wanna include u in their misery if… — COB Copy Share Image
When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud. The baby was not wrapped in any… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Not, not mine: it's somebody else's wound; I could never have borne it. So take the thing that happened, hide it, stick… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
“Misery will not come to the one who does not deceive his own Self. Miseries arise because one deceives one’s own Self.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“It's funny how you repeat behavior, even when you know it's bad for you, because it's the only thing you know. It's… — Courtney Robertson Copy Share Image
History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
I heard a knock upon my door the other day I opened it to find death staring in my face The feel… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Toward the end of the Cold War, capitalism created a military horror: the neutron bomb, a weapon that destroys life while leaving… — Subcomandante Marcos Copy Share Image
Out of our first century of national life we evolved the ethical principle that it was not right or just that an… — Frances Perkins Copy Share Image
I lived long enough in a society where freedom of speech was nonexistent, and I know what kind of misery that creates… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
Certainly I believe that God gave us life for happiness, not misery. Humanity, I am sure, will never be made lazy or… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
