Misery Quotes - Page 10

• As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

  Blaise Pascal

  Taken, Ignorance, Sadness

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.63, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Nobody who gets enough food and clothing in a world where most are hungry and cold has any business to talk about 'misery.'

  C. S. Lewis

  World, Cold, Hungry

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• Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.

  Beatrice Webb

  Class, Trying, Facts

  Beatrice Webb, Jeanne MacKenzie (1982). “The Diary of Beatrice Webb: Glitter Around and Darkness Within, 1873-1892”, Belknap Press

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• 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, Spring, Taken

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• In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

  Anne Frank

  Motivational, Believe, Divorce

  FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Apr 07, 2015

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• Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, and he'll tell you the story of each small one. From the big ones you get novels. A little talent is a nice thing to have if you want to be a writer, but the only real requirement is the ability to remember the story of every scar. Art consists of the persistence of memory.

  Stephen King

  Art, Hurt, Memories

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• If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Sad, Disease

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Earth, Wretchedness, Manifold

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• We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Wretched, Ought

  "Fables", V. 17, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 517-18, 1922.

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• I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

  Saint Augustine

  Soul, Overcoming, Lost

  Saint Augustine, Henry Chadwick (2008). “The Confessions”, p.58, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Nothing is miserable unless you think it so.

  Boethius

  Sad, Thinking, Miserable

  Boethius (2012). “The Consolation of Philosophy”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Life, Change, Courage

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• If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.

  Khalil Gibran

  Men, Weakness, Fellow Man

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• "The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them and inflict upon them untold misery, suffering and distress, tormenting, harrying and persecuting them mercilessly." According to Las Casas, atrocities continued unabated in the Americas, even half a century after the discovery.

  Bartolome de las Casas

  Discovery, Suffering, Tears

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• Happiness is threatening and misery is safe - safe for the ego. Ego can exist only in misery and through misery. Ego is an island surrounded by hell; happiness is threatening to the ego, to the very existence of the ego. Happiness rises like a sun and the ego disappears, evaporates like a dewdrop on the grass leaf.

  Rajneesh

  Islands, Ego, Safe

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• If this is understood then things become very clear. Misery makes you special. Happiness is a universal phenomenon, there is nothing special about it.

  Rajneesh

  Ego, Special, Clear

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• If your love leads to misery, it was from the ego. If your love leads to a beautiful benediction, a blessedness, it was from nature. If your friendship, even your meditation, leads you to misery, it was from the ego. If it were from nature everything would fit in, everything would become harmonious. Nature is wonderful, nature is beautiful, but you have to work it out.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Meditation, Ego

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• Always make a note of what you are doing and where it leads. By and by, you will become aware of that which is ego and that which is nature; which is real and which is false. It will take time and alertness, observation. And don't deceive yourself - because only ego leads to misery, nothing else. Don't throw the responsibility on the other; the other is irrelevant. Your ego leads to misery, nobody else leads you into misery. Ego is the gate of hell, and the natural, the authentic, the real that comes from your center, is the door to heaven. You will have to find it and work it out.

  Rajneesh

  Real, Responsibility, Doors

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• We must forgive each other our arising, for our existence always torments others. The golden rule in the midst of this mutual misery has always been, not to do no harm, but as little as possible; and not to love one another, but as much as you can.

  Ken Wilber

  Love, Forgiving, Littles

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• Live by what you believe so fully that your life blossoms, or else purge the fear-and-guilt producing beliefs from your life. When people believe one thing and do something else, they are inviting misery. If you give yourself the name, play the game. When you believe something you don't follow with your heart, intellect, and body, it hurts. Don't do that to yourself. Live your belief, or let that belief go. If you are not actively living a belief, it's not really your belief, anyway.

  Roger Delano Hinkins

  Dream, Hurt, Believe

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• Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Different

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.557, Manonmani Publishers

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• Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.

  Karl Popper

  Happiness, Fighting, Inner Peace

  Karl Popper (2014). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.465, Routledge

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• Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working.

  Bob Black

  Order, Names, Evil

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• One face to the world, another at home - makes for misery.

  Amy Vanderbilt

  Life, Home, World

  Amy Vanderbilt (1954). “Amy Vanderbilt's complete book of etiquette: a guide to gracious living”

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