Miseries Quotes
163 quotes by 126 authors
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Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
— Benazir Bhutto
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
— Winston Churchill
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How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!
— Douglas Harding
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The Americans say that we are ungrateful-but I ask them for heaven's sake, what should we be grateful to them for-for murdering our fathers and…
— David Walker
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Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where…
— Tryon Edwards
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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;…
— Richard Sibbes
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
— Thomas Carlyle
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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without…
— Samuel Johnson
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The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to…
— Blaise Pascal
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The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring - and you go on desiring.…
— Rajneesh
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All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one attachments. And we…
— Rajneesh
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The brain is the man; its health is essential for normal living; its disorders are surely the most profound of human miseries; and its destruction…
— H. Chandler Elliott
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This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.
— Walter Raleigh
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To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.
— Philip Massinger
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War has been avoided from a due sense of the miseries, and the demoralization it produces, and of the superior blessings of a state of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs…
— Therese of Lisieux
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Births and deaths are inevitable for man only during the state of ignorance in which he thinks he is the body and cannot exist without…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a…
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in…
— Rem Koolhaas
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