Misery Quotes

1633 Misery quotes by 995 unique authors

I pick the hair from her eyes and watch her misery with compassion. — William Carlos Williams
I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as… — Diane Ackerman
What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty,… — Thomas Jefferson
Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think… — Dalai Lama
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to… — Joseph Butler
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich… — P T Barnum
All power is God`s power; we are only vehicles. He pulsates in our hearts. He breathes through us. He sings a thousand and one songs… — Rajneesh
Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for… — Rajneesh
Misery has only one meaning, that things are not fitting with your desires - and things never fit with your desires, they cannot. Things simply… — Rajneesh
The more desires you have, the more misery you will create for yourself. Misery is a consequence of desiring - and you go on desiring.… — Rajneesh
You have to take the responsibility totally, that it is you who decides either to be in misery or to be in blessing. If you… — Rajneesh
See what your misery is, what desires are causing it, and why you are clinging to those desires. And it is not for the first… — Rajneesh
If you have desires, try to look - are those desires the cause of your misery? Nobody wants misery, but nobody is willing to drop… — Rajneesh
That is Buddha`s meaning of nirvana: to be free from life and death, to be free from desire. The moment you are free from all… — Rajneesh
There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only that you have… — Rajneesh
Buddha says this is how one should be - no desire, because all desires are futile. They are about the future; life is in the… — Rajneesh
...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end of misery and… — Rajneesh
This ego has all the desires, ambitions, wants to be always on the top of everything. You are exploited by this ego. And this never… — Rajneesh
All of our miseries are nothing but attachment. Our whole ignorance and darkness is a strange combination of a thousand and one attachments. And we… — Rajneesh
Misery is nothing but the shadow of attachment. And hence all stagnancy. The attached person becomes a stagnant pool - sooner or later he will… — Rajneesh
Our notions with respect to the importance of life, and our attachment to it, depend on a principle which has very little to do with… — William Hazlitt
Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have… — Dennis Prager
The big majority of Americans, who are comparatively well-off, have developed an ability to have enclaves of people living in the greatest misery almost without… — Gunnar Myrdal
Those who have suffered, who have known poverty or oppression, are generally the most prone to kindness. Perhaps it is well to endure some misery… — Arthur Lynch

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