The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Iàsmile a lot because I don't want people to see how broken I am inside, but sometimes I wish that someone would… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
2 years being a foster kid and I havet spent a holiday or my birthday with my 5 younger sibling, I miss… — Jon Hawes Copy Share Image
If misery spelled revolt, we should have had nothing but revolt from the beginning of time. On the contrary, it is quite… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
Since the beginning of time, love has been the source of both the highest bliss and the heaviest burdens. At the heart… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Presidents and prime ministers, whether they live in the rich or the poor world, are insulated and isolated from the devastating impact… — Jonathan Dimbleby 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
The truth was I'd given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
When I was seven and told my mom, 'I'm gonna be a writer,' she said, 'Oh, that's a terrible idea. You'll live… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happiness or misery in… — Ezra Cornell Copy Share Image
To those who can hear me, I say - do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that, in the end, there is light… — Joshua Copy Share Image
“You're back where you swore yourself you wouldn't be The familiar shackles you can't tell from your own skin Your head's under… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the… — Victor Villasenor Copy Share Image
“Being a stoic does not mean being a robot. Being a stoic means remaining calm both at the height of pleasure and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“[...] [T]here was no quota on misery for people, no quantifiable threshold that once reached, got you miraculously taken out of the… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness… — Prince Copy Share Image
“Misery is an unpleasant painful experience (ashata vedaniya); result of misery is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Many men ridicule the idea that it can be scientifically handled. They tell us the unemployed have always been with us, and… — Ida Tarbell Copy Share Image
The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Let me tell you that every misery I miss is a new blessing. [Not only be grateful for the good that you… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
“Evangeline's obliviousness was a reason to like her rather than not: I liked least those schoolfellows whose awareness of me invariably caused… — Sonya Hartnett Copy Share Image
Life is a joyous thing essentially, but when you bind life by all these rigid moralities and traditions, and dogmas and creeds,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
If you try to control everything, and then worry about the things you can't control, you are setting yourself up for a… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
![“The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman, and other men are slaves; that he is the only rich man, though never so poor in the world; that he is the only beautiful man, though outwardly never so deformed; that he is the only…” quote by Richard Sibbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74a/richard-sibbes-7950_beautiful_the-tenets-of-the-christian-life-seem-pa_150495.jpg)
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