If I took my characters home with me, half of my life would be a misery, I think. No, I tend to… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
“As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging,… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Rainy, gloomy, drab, sunless day. There are times when hope seems entirely clouded over, when looking for the blessings in your circumstances… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
... as a rule of thumb, whenever there appears a plural, correct for a singular. Should I ever let slip a royal… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine. — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
“All these were things he could not want, because they were the things he could not have, and wanting you could not… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
You can die from someone else's misery — emotional states are as infectious as diseases. You may feel you are helping the… — Robert Greene 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
“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
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
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
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
Conservative and liberal politicians alike now spend millions waging wars around the globe, funding the largest military state in the world, providing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Intuitive guidance means having the self-esteem to recognize that the discomfort or confusion that a person feels is actually directing him to… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Candidates have been telling you that if elected they would 'pull you from this bog hole of financial misery.' Now is a… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
“There are men who work hard, digging for gold: he worked hard, digging for pity. The misery of the world was his… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the… — John Green Copy Share Image
I am not alone Not beaten down just yet I am not afraid Of the voices in my head Down the darkest… — Tdg Copy Share Image
I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
Our stares connected and we were quiet for a long minute, united by our misery. At least he understood me and I… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“The gods granted us misery, in jealousy over the thought that we two, always together, should enjoy our youth, and then come… — Homer Copy Share Image
Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with… — Lynn Freed Copy Share Image
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
We've seen what violent regime change looks like in Libya and the kind of chaos that can be unleashed. And, indeed, the… — Rex W. Tillerson Copy Share Image
God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He… — Robert Herrick Copy Share Image
The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking… — Werner Herzog 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
“This was it, a crossroad where a happy home was within her grasp, and on the other side lay years of loneliness… — Anya Wylde Copy Share Image
Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
“I could not figure out what they were doing in an ice cream shop, since they couldn't possible eat calories. I imagined… — Leila Sales Copy Share Image
Ah, happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical… — Adolf Hitler 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