Miseries Quotes

163 Miseries quotes by 122 unique authors

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure. — Benazir Bhutto
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. — Thomas Carlyle
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. — Winston Churchill
How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries! — Douglas Harding
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
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
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
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness. — Thomas Carlyle
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
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
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
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
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… — Unknown Author
This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries. — Walter Raleigh
To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us. — Philip Massinger
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
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
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
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
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
Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me. — William Cowper
Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living. — Toni Cade Bambara
One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past. — Samuel Johnson
Wealth makes an ugly person beautiful to look on and an incoherent speech eloquent; and wealth alone can enjoy pleasure even in sickness and can… — Sophocles
I haven't a single friend; I must live alone. But well I know that God is nearer to me than to the others of my… — Ludwig van Beethoven

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