The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual… — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
“Times of terror and the deepest misery may arrive, but if there is to be any happiness in this misery it can… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
It is to labor, and to labor only, that man owes everything possessed of exchangeable value. Labor is the talisman that has… — John Ramsay McCulloch Copy Share Image
I did not realize that when money becomes a core value, then education drives towards utility or that the life of the… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
To a child who dies, and to the parents of this child, will you speak, if religion consoles them, in praise of… — Andre Comte-Sponville Copy Share Image
The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. It is the most grievous sentence of the three, but it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is forever unspeakable that man must suffer so. But you learn to control yourself, to work efficiently. ... I used to… — Elliott Merrick Copy Share Image
It was all wrong, ugly, unhappy and coloured with cynicism, but nothing was tragic, there were no moments that could change anything… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
A Prayer Refuse to fall down If you cannot refuse to fall down, refuse to stay down. If you cannot refuse to… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Below an income of ... $60,000 a year, people are unhappy, and they get progressively unhappier the poorer they get. Above that,… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in movement: I am not… — Matthew Gregory Lewis Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Once you become more and more watchful of your inner workings things become simple. Then a few things have to be dropped.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life.… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Kill me, Doug. Just kill me now. Put me out of my misery.” “Christ, Kincaid, what did you say to him?” murmured… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It must not be true when the left tell us what they really want is to help and assist and elevate the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What… — Queen Victoria Copy Share Image
Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“What is the definition of ‘remaining untouched in the worldly life’? It means that one finds pleasure upon seeing something nice, but… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This… — Keiko Nobumoto Copy Share Image
Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. We begin so aware and grateful. The… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
If the Soul sees, after death , what passes on this earth , and watches over the welfare of those it loves,… — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
In a vacuum all photons travel at the same speed. They slow down when travelling through air or water or glass. Photons… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
What profit is there in agreeing that universal friendship is good, and talking of the solidarity of the human race as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society. We are… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“He is wretched indeed, who goes up and down in the world, without a God to take care of him, to be… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, of sickness, or captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable; nor does… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world,… — Lily Allen Copy Share Image
One perceives that again and again she has destroyed her life when it was forming into shapes of happiness because of her… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image