Born Quote by Bertrand Russell

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

— Bertrand Russell

Extreme hopes are born of extreme misery.

— BERTRAND RUSSELL

If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to…

— Rohinton Mistry

What needs to be grasped is that the system itself is the cause of all of the misery in the world. This is a…

— Michael Yates

It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive…

— Alain de Botton

extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.

— Dodie Smith

“She reminded him of (...) all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice…

— Joseph Heller

There's enough misery in the world today without going out of the way to create more.

— Fred MacMurray

“thinking about the misery of the world is a favourite contemporary occupation. and if you can't think the television set will think for you.”

— Iris Murdoch

“What should one do with the misery of the world in a scheme of the agreeable for one's self?”

— Henry James

I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

— Charles Darwin

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world.

— Swami Vivekananda

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another

— Anonymous

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

— Henrik Ibsen