Misery Quotes

The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied. Ellen G. White
Love Man Christ Met Meet Our Earthly Would Would-Be Degraded Case Throne Could Misery Unsatisfied Lifted He Also Woe His Condition Sinner Very Eternal Depths Necessities Desires
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. Martha Washington
Happiness Our Circumstances Misery Part Greater Depends
There are thousands of boys being wasted daily to our country through being left to become characterless, and, therefore, useless wasters, a misery to themselves and an eyesore and a danger to the nation. They could be saved if only the right surroundings or environment were given to them at the receptive time of their lives. Robert Baden-Powell
Time Daily Country Become Nation Saved Our Danger Thousands Given Only Could Through Misery Environment Boy Were Left Surroundings Being Them Themselves Useless Therefore Lives Wasted Right Receptive
Tolerance, openness to argument, openness to self-doubt, willingness to see other people's points of view - these are very liberal and enlightened values that people are right to hold, but we can't allow them to delude us to the point where we can't recognise people who are needlessly perpetrating human misery. Sam Harris
People Values Argument Tolerance Other Liberal Recognise Willingness See Point Misery Points Allow Delude Openness Self-Doubt Very Human Where Hold Them Us View Who Right Enlightened
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma. Mahavira
Death Karma Cause Past Own Birth Attachment Misery None Said Source Effect Infatuation Escape Root Aversion
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. Mikhail Bakunin
Happy People Church Free Few Minutes Misery Go Forget Same Tavern Anyway Themselves Reasons Imagine
If we want to reduce poverty and misery, if we want to give to every deserving individual what is needed for a safe existence of an intelligent being, we want to provide more machinery, more power. Power is our mainstay, the primary source of our many-sided energies. Nikola Tesla
Poverty Power Every Our Machinery Give More More Power Individual Misery Primary Primary Source Safe Reduce Provide Source Existence Intelligent Being Want Energies Deserving Needed
Whenever I am faced with someone spreading negativity in my relationship, I remember the old saying, 'Misery loves company.' I am also reminded to be mindful of the company you keep. Sometimes you cannot see a hater until you are happy. It is then that they demonstrate their negativity. Raheem DeVaughn
Saying Relationship You Happy Sometimes Remember Old Misery Loves Company Mindful Negativity Hater See Faced Someone Misery Reminded Until Also Am Spreading Demonstrate Whenever Cannot Loves Then Company Keep
Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. Ralph Steadman
Man Hate Revenge Evil Out Exact Corrosive Restless More Through Misery Devising Always His Need
The black man has become a shell, a shadow of man, completely defeated, drowning in his own misery, a slave, an ox bearing the yoke of oppression with sheepish timidity. Steven Biko
Man Oppression Black Become Own Shadow Bearing Misery Drowning Shell His Timidity Yoke Ox Defeated Slave
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice. William Glasser
Impossible Misery Almost Most Ineffective Becoming Continue Anyone After Us Choice Choose Even Aware Among
I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. Aeschylus
Silence Proper Purifying Rites Misery Know Schooled Where Many Speech
It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good comes of this is not yet listening. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Good Listening Nothing Says Misery Clear Becomes Middle Much Who
The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody. Eric Hoffer
Man Woman Mother Old Young Misery Nobody Child Young Man Interesting Young Woman Old Man
Sin carries in it its own misery. John Piper
Own Carries Misery Sin
The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it. Margaret Drabble
Rare Seen Pleasure Misery Being
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. Martha Washington
Happiness Experience Our Circumstances Misery Part Learned Greater Depends
A manufacturing nation is, in every sense of the word, dependent on others. Look to England! Cut off from the markets of the world, misery and ruin await her. John Tyler
World Word Nation Sense Every Others Ruin Markets Misery Look Off Dependent Cut England Manufacturing Await Her
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. Matthew Arnold
Resolve Finds Misery He Thyself Know Himself Loses His Who
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery. Nagarjuna
Together Cause Inevitable Down Every Wave Log Misery Driven River Parting Move Wood Which Apart Should
My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years. Paul Merton
Life You School Days School My Life Past Indication Some Give Misery Over Days Were Years Endured Which Happiest Should Twenty-Five
Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives. Robert Kennedy
Communism Political Thrive Poverty Programs Progressive Out Must Misery Wipe Discontent Ultimately Which Defeated
Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all. Rosamund Pike
Joy Pain Laughs About Misery Suppose Like Am Human Communicating Acting Searching
He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. Voltaire
Age Spirit Misery He Who
If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery? Joyce Meyer
Attitude You Decision Judgment Else Bad Someone Misery Allow Know Alter Makes Send Anyone Decisions Mean Should Your Uses Why
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. Albert Camus
History Happy Those Silencing Misery Weep Periods Encounter Want Acknowledge Which Who
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