Miseries Quotes

163 Miseries quotes by 122 unique authors

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
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. — Sophocles
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. — Oscar Niemeyer
I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice. — Shelby Lynne
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. — Tryon Edwards
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries. — Jane Birkin
People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. — Victoria Abril
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past. — Erica Jong
Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of… — Samuel Johnson
Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless feel that it… — Joy Davidman
Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability… — Pope John Paul II
The wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries. — Seneca the Younger
There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of… — John Armstrong
We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. — John Dryden
The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn… — Thomas Hartwell Horne
Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to… — George Bernard Shaw

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