“The misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Prayer is not designed to inform God, but to give man a sight of his misery; to humble man's heart, to excite… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
What is marriage now, or what has it ever been? - just a painful suffering, a long suffering, with false smiling faces.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
As I railed on and on, I became increasingly energied and excited by my own misery and misanthropy until I reached a… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
The American notion of family is perhaps the most romanticized, deep-rooted, and misery-producing fantasy of the last hundred years. — Joy Browne Copy Share Image
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“It do seem to me that the life of man is merely a pattern scrawled on Time, with little thought, little care,… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
The ethic of Reverence for Life prompts us to keep each other alert to what troubles us and to speak and act… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
“Ferranti's thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the mental chains that had imprisoned… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me… — Boethius Copy Share Image
A tender-hearted and compassionate disposition, which inclines men to pity and feel the misfortunes of others, and which is, even for its… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery. — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to… — Derek Lin Copy Share Image
It were much better that a sentient being should never have existed, than that it should have existed only to endure unmitigated… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
“Who is the Lord become pleased with? It is with the one who takes on everyone’s miseries and gives happiness to others.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“Of course the crank religions wouldn't like it, in view of the fact that their raison d'etre was based on misery, indefinitely… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Now there is fame! Of all - hunger, misery, the incomprehension by the public - fame is by far the worst. It… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
In screaming your name cause it the only word that makes sense, I need help cause my alter ego got me backed… — Timothy Ashmore Copy Share Image
Not only subjective poverty is never overcome by growth, but absolute poverty is increased by it. ... Absolute misery grows while wealth increases. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy… — Elton John Copy Share Image
“The most baffling about the human psyche is that even after seeing the misery and suffering all around. He is convinced that… — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
“The pain that you do not fear, will not come before you at all. Neither do the gansters come, and nor does… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
For a while I had a blues band in L.A., but I realized I was too optimistic to play the blues. I… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
The philosophers talk to you about the dignity of man, and they tempt you to pride, or they talk to you about… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“He'd had his career, his triumphs. Success had brought him nothing but misery; he couldn't handle it. Success had thrown him in… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
If you take racism away from certain people - I mean, vitriolic racism as well as the sort of social racist -… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Then haste we down to meet thy friends and foes; To place thy friends in ease, the rest in woes. For here… — Thomas Kyd Copy Share Image
I am the Saudi Arabia of unhappiness. I have so many reserves of misery that you wouldn't understand. I actually think that's… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The reason I write romance is that I like happy endings. The idea, you know, 'It's not literature unless is ends badly,'… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad… — Emily Mortimer Copy Share Image
I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
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