The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Miserable people focus on the things they hate about their life. Happy people focus on the things they love about their life. — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“perhaps it is only that sometimes misery seems to ease when spread about, or that spreading it seems to provide some purpose… — Daniel Polansky Copy Share Image
The world we live in is the world we choose to live in, whether consciously or unconsciously. If we choose bliss, that's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If someone makes you miserable more than happy, it doesn't matter how much you love them, you need to meed to let… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“West couldn't simply leave the man like this, he didn't have it in him. "Goodman Heath," he said as he approached, and… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
“It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters “Your number-one fan.” The minute… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Religion informs us that misery and sin were produced together. The depravation of human will was followed by a disorder of the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“People are bound to remain anxious if there is a "should" in life. If there is an ideal that has to be… — osho Copy Share Image
Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm; great good fortune comes to failure… — Euripides Copy Share Image
Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
If misery were a seed, some would attempt to plant it everywhere. FYI: From the seed of misery, grows a weed to… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
A manufacturing nation is, in every sense of the word, dependent on others. Look to England! Cut off from the markets of… — John Tyler Copy Share Image
“I am trying to describe these things not to relive them in my present boundless misery, but to sort out the portion… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“The road to hell may be paved with good intentions but the path to misery is cobbled with trying to live up… — LaToya Hankins Copy Share Image
I've always liked reading books that contain funny lines or situations, and maybe because my work is known chiefly for its violence… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Life is much too short to sit around dwelling in unhappiness, and being miserable. Every day is a joyous occasion, be sure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No human being can ever "own" another, whether in friendship, love, marriage or parenthood. Many human relationships have been ruined and happiness… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hours… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Behind the driven person is just an enormous amount of misery. You have to be miserable with the status quo to want… — Glenn Kelman Copy Share Image
I turned around and headed back to the stairwell, planning to go downstairs and buy a chocolate bar from the vending machine.… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness,… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Stop trying to distinguish the joy of meditation from the messiness of life. Begin to see the divine in everything. She is… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I need you, you need me We make the perfect kind of misery I help you and you help me Become the… — Adelitas Way Copy Share Image
Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Her heart began to ache, and she felt the numbness slip away. Misery welled up inside her. She clamped down on it,… — Lili Wilkinson Copy Share Image
If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
In a word, we may gather out of History a policy no less wise than I eternal; by the comparison and application… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free.… — Mariah Carey Copy Share Image
“For the ignorant, pain is a curse, but for the wise, it is a blessed moment for reinforcing one's inner goodness and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Asked whether donor nations may be becoming fatigued ... The fatigue may be there, but I don't think we can justify it… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
