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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner.

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

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

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

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 winning and there is misery.

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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 wretched hasten to hear of their own miseries.

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.

They have no idea what a bottomless pit of misery I am.

To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.

This was yet another colonial fascination: to create the conditions of misery in a population, then subject it to social or medical experimentation.

Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

Time and time again throughout the latter part of the Cold War, liberals chose a morally perverse pose. They would seek to find any suspect motive or impure act on the part of the United States rather than confront the staggering scale of destruction and misery being wrought by our adversaries.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

Unhappiness is too common to call for special measures.