Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a… — A.L. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Tthis social responsibility is killing me inside, the pressure's building with time...stay away sweet misery, stay away sweet misery. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is no need returning anger to those who made your past horrible, do not think of making them feel bitter, maybe… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
If Satan can weaken or destroy the loving relationships among members of families, he can cause more misery and more unhappiness for… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness & misery. All the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with… — Katelyn Ohashi Copy Share Image
It's to the Capitol's advantage to have us divided among ourselves. Another tool to cause misery in our district. A way to… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“I looked around the barroom. Someone else might have seen nothing more than a random crowd of drinkers, but I saw my… — J.R. Moehringer Copy Share Image
We invented marriage. Couples invented marriage. We also invented divorce,mind you. And we invented infidelity,too, as well as romantic misery. In fact… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome;… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Then he took the pages, smoothed them with the palm of his hand, and fixed them with pins to the walls. So… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It's possible that I would have been better suited to being a penguin keeper. Starting out, I thought being a writer would… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked… — Bertolt Brecht Copy Share Image
Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery which are due to contact with the material senses. O… — Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
“Where one sees another, one hears another so long as there are two, there must be fear, and fear is the mother… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
“All your worst miseries or blissful moments happen because of truthfulness ... In balance, being always truthful, as a resolve, tends to… — Sandeep Sahajpal Copy Share Image
Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of… — Martha Washington Copy Share Image
The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The misery that smothers you is temporary...Get your mind right, prioritize your life, and change the way you look at things. Your… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I saw the abyss of my misery; whatever there is of good in me is Yours, O Lord. But because I am… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
“Some will make you Dance, some will make you Smile, and some will make your misery longer than a mile! Pleasure or… — RVM Copy Share Image
“Nothing in this book is an attempt to prevent the really resolute misery addicts from continuing their pursuit of frustration and failure.” — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
We are born in this world to lose as well as to gain, to have happiness as well as misery. Enrich your… — Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha Copy Share Image
“I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Well, just remember--all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Giving a fuck what other people thought was a road straight to misery and pain; an obsession of the weak. To believe… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image