Miseries Quotes

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So rainbow-sided, touch'd with miseries, She seem'd, at once, some penanced lady elf, Some demon's mistress, or the demon's self. — John Keats
The revolution taught me not to be consoled by other people's miseries, not to feel thankful because so many others had suffered more. Pain and… — Azar Nafisi
For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism,… — Aldous Huxley
I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is… — C.S. Lewis
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
No ideology can help to create a new world or a new mind or a new human being -- because ideological orientation itself is the… — Rajneesh
Delight in smooth sounding platitudes, refusal to face unpleasant facts ... genuine love of peace and pathetic belief that love can be its sole foundation… — Winston Churchill
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. — C.S. Lewis
If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend… — Wayne Dyer
Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries. — Wislawa Szymborska
Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low. — James Joyce
Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there? Should he not seek his own country? His miseries are his ally; they urge him… — John Eldredge
When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. — William Shakespeare
I know you'll probably get angry with me for that, shout, stamp your feet: "speak just for yourself and your miseries in the underground, and… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
You encountered a misery near the end of the day and it took a while to gauge its full extent. Some miseries had sharp curvature… — Jonathan Franzen
Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only place u can… — Jennifer Weiner
It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make… — Bram Stoker
We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our… — Glen Duncan
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries. — Blaise Pascal

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