Miseries Quotes

163 quotes by 122 authors

When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of… — Charles Spurgeon
We twist our souls around each otherâ€™s miseries. — Anthony Marra
New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of… — John Gunther
Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused… — Swami Vivekananda
No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves. — Swami Vivekananda
And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day… — Morrie Schwartz
Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of… — John Cheever
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind. — Thomas Carlyle
I cannot worry much about your sins and miseries when I have so many of my own. I can only love you all, poor fellow… — Dorothy Day
My miseries have always come out of my own flesh, never from any burden Jesus has laid on me. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover… — Richard Clarke Cabot
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. — George Eliot
The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for… — Thomas Carlyle
The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly… — Agnes Repplier
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the… — Seneca the Younger
The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule;… — Emile M. Cioran
I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think… — Allen Ginsberg

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