Miseries Quotes
163 quotes by 125 authors
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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
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Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.
— Toni Cade Bambara
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One of the aged greatest miseries is that they cannot easily find a companion able to share the memories of the past.
— Samuel Johnson
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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
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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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Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both…
— Joseph Addison
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Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell…
— Thomas Brooks
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If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go in your sins,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events;…
— Milan Kundera
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Let no man dare, when I am dead. to charge me with dishonor; let no man attaint my memory by believing that I could have…
— Robert Emmet
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There are things you can describe in life and things you just can’t. There are dangers and adventures, miseries and fear that you can tell…
— Andrew Klavan
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The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I…
— Swami Vivekananda
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If all men were to bring their miseries together in one place, most would be glad to take each his own home again rather than…
— Solon
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Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.
— Frank Sulloway
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Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgressions.…
— Stephen Charnock
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We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between…
— Alvin Toffler
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Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.
— Swami Vivekananda
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Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.
— William Shakespeare
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A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not…
— Denise Levertov
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That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of…
— J C Ryle
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