Misery Quote by Herman Bavinck

If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

— Leo Strauss

“The Unknown is not the Unknowable; it need not remain the unknown for us, unless we choose ignorance or persist in our first limitations.…

— Sri Aurobindo

The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

— Samuel Johnson

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope…

— Megan Chance

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids…

— Philip Larkin

“In fact, he who has only beheld the misery of man has seen nothing; the misery of woman is what he must see; he…

— Victor Hugo

We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man…

— Swami Vivekananda

“He who has seen the misery of man only has seen nothing, he must see the misery of woman; he who has seen the…

— Victor Hugo

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

— Lord Byron

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

— Homer

A victor only breeds hatred, while a defeated man lives in misery, but a man at peace within lives happily, abandoning up ideas of…

— Gautama Buddha

“They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you with the faults they had…

— Philip Larkin

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do…

— Luigi Pirandello

As I had once done thus in my breaking away from my Parents, so I could not be content now, but I must go…

— Daniel Defoe

“Our lives were limitless and unknowable, not perfect, but ours.”

— Brenna Yovanoff