My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places. Even now, the shirts… — Ben H. Winters Copy Share Image
If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin,… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
I think everybody knows that Africa is in a very deep crisis. There is economic misery and social deprivation and that Africa… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
If our well-being depends upon the interaction between events in our brains and events in the world, and there are better and… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“If you try to convert someone, it will never be to effect his salvation but to make him suffer like yourself, to… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I am acquainted with a wife and mother who is chained securely at the present time to a life-style of murmuring and… — Marvin J. Ashton Copy Share Image
It seems perverse to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan ...[Showing the misery of Afghanistan ran the risk… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
There are topics which are common to men and women. I think that if a woman speaks of oppression, of misery, she… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
If a country is governed with tolerance, the people are comfortable and honest. If a country is governed with repression, the people… — Laozi Copy Share Image
May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Misery is a scar on the soul, that if it begins in childhood, it lasts the whole lifetime. I understand that no… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use.… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
The person in misery does not need a look that judges and criticizes but a comforting presence that brings peace and hope… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
In the past 20 years alone, it adds up to more death than were caused by all the civil and international wars… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening.… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All our misery comes from wanting at all costs to go on being Tom, Dick, or Harry, year in, year out. This… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
In the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown… — Alejo Carpentier Copy Share Image
It is a basic human need that everyone wants to live a happy life. For this, one has to experience real happiness.… — S. N. Goenka Copy Share Image
“And someone, somewhere, was having an even worse time of it than me. I tried to keep that in mind. No matter… — Lish McBride Copy Share Image
I climbed into Misery and called Uncle Bob. “We hooking up?” “Why does everything out of your mouth make me sound incestuous?”… — Darynda Jones Copy Share Image
“That summer, Titanic fever gripped Kabul. People smuggled pirated copies of the film from Pakistan- sometimes in their underwear. After curfew, everyone… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I feel that music on the screen can seek out and intensify the inner thoughts of the characters. It can invest a… — Bernard Herrmann Copy Share Image
“Translating cold numbers into a graphic picture of the hard economic realities in the lives of ordinary people is a challenge. In… — Hedrick Smith Copy Share Image
God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everbody who IS everybody. All the best minds… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, our constant efforts to lower our estimate of the present world should not lead us to hate life or to be… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everything he had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no joy for someone who has no sorrow. There is no pleasure for the one who has no patience No… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Always look from an angle from which you can find more happiness in it and more joy. Ordinarily our mind always finds… — Osho Copy Share Image
Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Nature provided human beings with all the gemstones needed to attain happiness – physical abilities, intellectual and cognitive capacity, and emotional indexes,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image