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Success can also cause misery. The trick is not to be surprised when you discover it doesn't bring you all the happiness and answers you thought it would.

Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

That is the truth about man - that he has a curious kind of dignity, but also a curious kind of misery, and that these forms of agnosticism don't understand.

That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.

That's a miserable and cursed word, to say I had, when what I have is nothing.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

That's why I've come to you, to seek release from a curse of misery and horror against which I'm powerless to fight alone.

The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.

The bliss of the Creator forever permeates all of creation, and it is only in the forgetting that misery exists.

The Atonement is real. As you steadily do the things the Lord would have you do, a change will occur in you, and Satan's ability to lead you into the things that will destroy you and bring misery to you will become lessened.

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

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

The catalogue of miseries seems to cry out for commercial spots and a station break: the stuff of noonday soap opera.

The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.

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.

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

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

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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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 magic in misery. Just ask any runner.

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 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.

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

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