The themes that make one laugh always stem from poverty, hunger, misery, old age, sickness, and death. These are the themes that… — Mario Monicelli Copy Share Image
One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
They will both be happy, and I do not grudge them their bliss; but I groan under my own misery: some of… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Sitting around idly contemplating doesn't produce much. In work you can discipline your attention, forget about your misery. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“However, the knowledge that her misery has company is little comfort, and this jubilant springtime display is not to be trusted. Life… — Jenna Blum Copy Share Image
“Someone experiencing the stages of grief is rarely aware of how his behavior might appear to others. Grief often produces a “zoom… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Everyone is scared of having a free sexual life and what they do is go on the Internet and masturbate. This is… — Olivier Zahm Copy Share Image
“Satsang means the coming together (yog) of the eternal (sat); it is the coming together of good things, of positive things. And… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“I have sometimes thought that the mere hearing of those songs would do more to impress some minds with the horrible character… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Control cannot be called conscience until we are able to take it inside us and make it our own, until--in spite of… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
Buddha says this is how one should be - no desire, because all desires are futile. They are about the future; life… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
There were several parallels between Jonestown and Escuela Caribe. Both places used isolation to control a large group of people and censored… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Imagine yourself as a wife, and you have to look at a brain-injured husband for the rest of your life, and he… — Daniel Inouye Copy Share Image
Through inculcating the notion that sacrifice is a virtue, Christianity has succeeded in convincing many people that misery incurred through sacrifice is… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
This is where my path lead me To misery so cold...to the end And I will never return… I will never dream,… — Unknw Copy Share Image
The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel. — Akkineni Nagarjuna Copy Share Image
The only way past the pain is through it. Pain, grief, anger, misery...they don't go away-they just increase and compound and get… — Jasinda Wilder Copy Share Image
My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually… — Faye Moskowitz Copy Share Image
The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Snow is like a manic pixie dream girl: fun and whimsical when you encounter it only through the barrier of a movie… — Alexandra Petri Copy Share Image
As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, the anxiety will pass, which is easy for me to say when I'm not in the middle of an anxiety… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
“Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing… — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Turn the mind inward and cease thinking of yourself as the body; thereby you will come to know that the self is… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
If we remove the hope of profit as a means to alleviate misfortune - poverty, illness, misery, disaster - we shall increase… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me… — Arthur Golden Copy Share Image
It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be… — George Sand Copy Share Image
Yet is there one more cursed than they all, That canker-worm, that monster, jealousie, Which eats the heart and feeds upon the… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Stop making someone very happy if someday you'll just leave that person shivering and making that person's life miserable. — Vince Copy Share Image
To add to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China - the greatest and oldest despotism in the… — Denis Kearney Copy Share Image
“When one becomes ‘above normal’ or ‘below normal’ in circumstances; it is called a vishaya (involvement in worldly subjects and sense pleasures).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
When we talk about carpet bombing ISIL, that's what it looks like, creating huge numbers of civilian casualties, which increases the numbers… — John R. Allen Copy Share Image
