Bowels Quote by Thomas Browne

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Man is never less miserable than when he appears to be deprived of everything.

— Vikrant Parsai

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

— James Boswell

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result…

— Albert Einstein

When men are unhappy, they do not imagine they can ever cease to be so; and when some calamity has fallen on them, they…

— Epictetus

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?

— Andre Gide

It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

— John Locke

The men, who labour and digest things most, Will be much apter to despond than boast; For if your author be profoundly good, 'Twill…

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

It is no wonder if, under the pressure of these possibilities of suffering, men are accustomed to moderate their claims to happiness - just…

— Sigmund Freud

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.

— Anonymous

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero