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All misery and pain come from attachment.

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

A lot of guys come up talking about The Waterboy. I get a lot of that. Misery, Delores Claiborne and The Waterboy, those are the main ones I get.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

And it may be that love sometimes occurs without pain or misery.

Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.

At a certain stage of misery, you'll try anything to explain what's going on with you, even if you know it doesn't explain a thing and it's one failed explanation after another.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

... as a rule of thumb, whenever there appears a plural, correct for a singular. Should I ever let slip a royal WE, put me out of my misery with a swift blow to the head.

At least we should learn to understand our fellow beings, for we are powerless to stop their misery, their ignominy, their suffering, their weakness, and their death.

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

At the end, we brought her to New York, where I was living, for a series of experimental tortures that increased the misery of her days without increasing the number of them.

Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state with a flourishing economic life.

Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.

But the gambling reasoner is incorrigible: if he would but take to squaring the circle, what a load of misery would be saved.

But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse

By compassion we make others' misery our own, and so, by relieving them, we relieve ourselves also.

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.

...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.

Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.

Colombia is potentially a very wealthy country. It has tremendous resources, but its wealth is highly concentrated. Most of the population lives in misery, which has led to violent confrontation throughout the century.

Change is always subjective. To talk of evil and misery is nonsense, because they do not exist outside. If I am immune from all anger, I never feel angry. If am immune from all hatred, I never feel hatred.

Change only one thing, change from misery to bliss. from sadness to celebration. And it can be done very easily because misery is an unnatural thing.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Death must no longer be either the penalty for prosperity or the consolation of misery. God did not destine it to be either the punishment or the compensation for life.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.

Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.

Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that.

Don't feel bad when I die; I've been dead for a long time.

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery