“The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited all.” — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our… — Albert Schweitzer 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
Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place… — Phineas Quimby Copy Share Image
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Ye know full well that the meaning of life is to find your gift. To find your gift is happiness. Never tae… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The problem is not them its me that degrades falling down to accept it to be a purpose to keep alive and… — Rod Banuelos Copy Share Image
If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
A freedom or pleasure that rests on someone else's slavery or misery cannot finally satisfy the self because it is a limitation… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“The Aristocrat The Devil is a gentleman, and asks you down to stay At his little place at What'sitsname (it isn't far… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
If you dare try to leave me behind, I'll follow on foot, and when I die in the snow, Ill come back… — Stuart Hill Copy Share Image
I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are… — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of… — Helen M. Luke Copy Share Image
“misery, though seemingly ridiculous, indicates life itself has the potential of meaning, and therefore pain itself must also have meaning.” — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are… — Danny Boyle Copy Share Image
May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
The only way not to be miserable is to choose not to be, accept who you are and just live the best… — Blaze Olermiday Copy Share Image
That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path,… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“If you regard this life as all that there is for a man to live, then the world is a pit of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cycling is the only way to free ourselves from the misery of the Tube, the wall-to-wall buses that line Oxford Street, the… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Bodily pleasure is not in itself a bad thing. But when it is exalted to a necessity and we become dependent upon… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
“Some sentiment other than love united these two beings, and inspired with mutual anxiety their movements and their thoughts. Misery is, perhaps,… — Honoré de Balzac Copy Share Image
Nothing can make you happier than you are. All search for happiness is misery and leads to more misery. The only happiness… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves. — Sarah Bernhardt 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
If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich,… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
“Yes, happiness is dependent upon misery. For we all feel a swell of happiness after our circumstances improve from a misery recently… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“No misery compares to staring at a clear night's sky with arms stretched toward a coveted star, wishing on what is forever… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image