Causes Quote by Blaise Pascal

All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.

— Blaise Pascal

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

— Blaise Pascal

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

— Blaise Pascal

All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.

— Anthony de Mello

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

— Blaise Pascal

Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil…

— Phineas Quimby

Misery is a communicable disease.

— Martha Graham

It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others,…

— John Ruskin

It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.

— Tom Perrotta

“Misery develops in the insidious seams created by imprecision and faulty human thinking. The cure for unhappiness is finding joy by embracing human nature.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster