Best 873 quotes in «misery quotes» category

The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.

(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any Persons at all upon a necessity of making such an Option, wherein if they choose amiss, the Misery they incur must be irrevocable.

The economic misery: who passed NAFTA? You know, Bill Clinton signed that with Hillary's [Clinton] support.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

Their [the Jews] rotten and unbending stiffneckedness deserves that they be oppressed unendingly and without measure or end and that they die in their misery without the pity of anyone.

The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.

The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War.

The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.

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

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 the beginning of ecstasy.

The miserable are sacred.

The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compared to the misery of not being exploited at all.

The misery which follows pleasure is the pleasure which follows misery. The pleasure and misery of mankind revolve like a wheel.

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.

Then we heard the rumours: that the last scientists were working on a cure that would end the plague and restore the world. Restore it? Why? I like the death! I like the misery! I like this world!

The nearer we are to God, the less we will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from God, the more will long faces come. The more we know God, the more misery vanishes.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.

The only thing which consoles for our miseries is diversion, and yet this is the greatest of our miseries. For it is this which principally hinders us from reflecting upon ourselves and which makes us imperceptibly ruin ourselves.

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

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 many desires, you have contradictory desires. If one is fulfilled, the other, which is its contradiction, remains unfulfilled and you are in misery. If the other is fulfilled, then something else remains unfulfilled.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

There is a strain in Marx of the cleric, of the vulgar moralist. He paints the capitalist and the bourgeois as incarnations of evil; it is they who are responsible for the woes of mankind. The dismissal of the individual's responsibility for his own misery is the quintessence of clericalism.

There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.

There is only one pleasure-that of being alive. All the rest is misery.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

There is no shortage of ways that people profit indirectly from the misery and cruelty in other places. Even now, the shirts we wear and the tomatoes we eat. There are unfortunately unfair and inhumane conditions - including literal slavery - all over the world.

The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet.

The remembrance of past misery is sweet.

There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don’t have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.

The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

There is winning and there is misery.

There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.

The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.

The whole "misery loves company" thing never applies more than when you're breaking up. The thought that the other person is doing fine is simply too much to bear.

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.