Foibles Quote by Hannah More

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

— Annie Besant

Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude…

— William Morley Punshon

The world will be for the common people, and the sounds of Happiness will reach even the deepest springs.

— Karl Marx

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own…

— George Bernard Shaw

“All our misery comes from wanting at all costs to go on being Tom, Dick, or Harry, year in, year out. This body of…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it…

— Samuel Johnson

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

— Anonymous

The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy; but it can be done; and…

— Paul Scherrer

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

— Thomas Malthus

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

— John Lothrop Motley

Oh, we are but soft and squishy bags of mortality rolling in a bin of sharp circumstance, leaking life until we collapse, flaccid, into…

— Christopher Moore