Miseries Quotes

163 quotes by 122 authors

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. — Blaise Pascal
It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. — Albert Schweitzer
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life… — William Shakespeare
Television's escapist programming naturally continues to endorse living beyond one's means as the time-tested American Way and rarely depicts families or individuals wracked by the… — Tom Shales
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we… — Swami Vivekananda
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts… — Noah Webster
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. — Colin Wilson
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. — W. Somerset Maugham
If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad,… — William Shakespeare
...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the… — Christopher Paolini
I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the… — Voltaire
Ah how shameless â€“ the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with… — Homer
We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan — Amy Tan
Love, love, love â€“ all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced… — Germaine Greer
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable… — Thomas Paine
The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation… — Orson Scott Card
Sometimes it takes more courage not to let yourself see. Sometimes knowledge is damaging - not enlightenment but enleadenment. If one recognizes the difference and… — Marisha Pessl

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