Misery Quotes

In every human society, there is an effort continually tending to confer on one part the height of power and happiness, and to reduce the other to the extreme of weakness and misery. The intent of good laws is to oppose this effort and to diffuse their influence universally and equally. Cesare Beccaria
Happiness Good Power Oppose Every Society Diffuse Other Extreme Weakness Laws Misery Tending Part Equally Reduce Continually Effort Intent Human Influence Height Human Society Universally
One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. Cesare Pavese
Love Woman Nothingness Our Oneself Misery Vulnerability Because Does Reveals Any Us
Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it. Charles Platt
Comedy Long Live Enough Misery Stuff Over Over It Get Just
When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. Cyril Connolly
Love Animal Thinking Others Ourselves Misery Clear Condemned Begin Human Human Animal Either To Love Then
The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world. Dambisa Moyo
Today World Political Myth Poverty Increased Aid Systemic Has-Been Alleviate Economic Misery Developing Developing World Disaster Most Parts Because Been Ended Done Africa Poorer Notion Humanitarian Millions
Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. Desiderius Erasmus
Ignorance Illusion Live Believe Philosophers Folly Only Misery Protesting Hear Human Deception Now
If a mosquito has a soul, it is mostly evil. So I don't have too many qualms about putting a mosquito out of its misery. I'm a little more respectful of ants. Douglas Hofstadter
Soul Mosquito Evil Too Respectful Out About More Misery Putting Mostly Qualms Ants Little Many
Agrarian reform should not merely subdivide misery, it must raise living standards. Ownership raises the farmer from his, but productivity will keep him on his feet. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Will Ownership Living Must Misery Merely Feet Him His Reform Should Farmer Productivity Standards Keep Raise Raises
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. John Calvin
God Great Will Rise Misery No-One He Him Up Against Mighty Avoid
Misery loves company. John Ray
Misery Loves Company Misery Loves Company
Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed. Joseph Butler
Compassion Mind Pain Our Ourselves Distressed Misery Puts Sorrow Well Debt Owe Us Right Assistance
Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe that that the universe is governed by benign forces, at some point you have to explain why there is so much suffering, misfortune and misery in the world. Julian Baggini
You Suffering World Whatever Believe Universe Benign Religious Some Point Misery Misfortune Forces Governed Explain Much Persuasion Your Why
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. Lewis Mumford
Death War Destruction Starvation Characterize Misery Part Principal Terror Form Process Product
I think of myself as quite a confused kind of person, because I think there's so many great things about the world, but there are so many awful things too. I feel very guilty a lot of the time about enjoying my life so much when there are people living in such misery. Lily Allen
Life Time Myself Great People Confused World Great Things My Life Living Think Too Guilty Kind About Misery Feel Because Lot Very Person Quite Much Many Awful Things Enjoying
I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. Lord Byron
Happiness Man Married About Wedding Misery Pursuit Pursuit Of Happiness Course Am
It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! Luigi Pirandello
Alone You Man Women Old Young Enough Able Shame Casual Misery Unspeakable Know Look Sordid Without Go Affairs Old Enough Who Lives
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery. Michael Harrington
Increase Misery Advance Almost Without Human Automatically Social Technological
Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles. Red Skelton
Happiness Care Too Much Too Our Misery Taken Principles Springs Cannot Forming Much Therefore Actions
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. Thornton Wilder
Happiness God Best Gift Understanding Alive Misery Highest He Know Him His Being Wants Loves Whole Creature Deepest Bring Save
Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. Victor Cousin
Ignorance Misery Primary Primary Source Source Vice
Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. Addison Mizner
Misery Loves Company Reciprocate Misery Does Loves Company
To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. Albert Camus
Me History Natural Everything Correct Sun Indifference Misery Between Well Half-Way Taught Placed Believing Kept
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. Alexander Smith
Happiness Life Trifles Misery Make Make Up Up Human Human Life
After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience. Ann Hood
Experience Fly Added Took Our Adds Ways Favorite Security Carrying Security Measures Some Only Misery Knitting Longer New Safe Although Lines Privilege Just Want After Board Us Measures Away Earlier Needles
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable. Anthony Trollope
Poverty Hideous Rural Misery Picturesque Pitiable Suburban Should
We can never flee the misery that is within us. Arthur Golden
Misery Never Within Flee Us
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