Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There’s nothing quite as funny as someone else’s misery. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“Always work towards a dream or you'll always dream of working elsewhere.” — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
An attitude of compassion does not mean looking down on someone, pitying them in their misery. Compassion is based on respect. We… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
God knows life sucks. It's right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and… — John Milton Copy Share Image
And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
When the coercive power of government is used to equalize incomes, it guarantees less prosperity across the board and spreads the misery,… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
To avoid pain we must know the conditions of health. For the accomplishment of this end we must rely upon investigation instead… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The temptation to just crawl up onto the bank and lie there in a huddled mass of misery was almost overwhelming, but… — Josie Litton Copy Share Image
There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places. Even now, the shirts… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
Time and time again throughout the latter part of the Cold War, liberals chose a morally perverse pose. They would seek to… — Mona Charen 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
Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“God didn't save his son one stroke of misery. He won't withhold any good thing from you.” — Stephen Altrogge Copy Share Image
As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery. — John Donne Copy Share Image
Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath. — Laozi Copy Share Image
I was feeling a bit lonely, when I asked myself what I seemed to be missing the most; The answer turned to… — Janethnipay Copy Share Image
And so the problem remained; lots of people were mean, and most were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“If your life is a miserable disaster, you might want to consider, that it's because you are doing something wrong.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Remember that while money doesn’t buy happiness, the lack of it certainly breeds misery.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery. — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
