Misery Quotes - Page 17

• The only way out of today's misery is for people to become worthy of each other's trust.

  Albert Schweitzer

  People, Today, Way

  Albert Schweitzer (1984). “The Words of Albert Schweitzer”

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• When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.

  Adolf Hitler

  Spiritual, Twilight, Heart

  Adolf Hitler (1998). “Mein Kampf”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But fear - panic - knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest torment of humanity. Fear is, in short, the devil. It causes most of the sin, disaster, disease and misery of the world. It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may...devour. The only refuge is in the knowledge that it has no power other than the power you give it.

  Robert Collier

  Giving, Humanity, Devil

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• There are so may ways to kills yourself, they're just old-fashioned with their permanganate: do you think I'd take permanganate? I wouldn't want to burn my insides out and live to tell the tale as well: idiots! It's simple, I'd drown myself... Why be in misery at the last?

  Christina Stead

  Art, Simple, Thinking

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• To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Men, Greed, Progress

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• No man has a right to be idle. Where is it that in such a world as this, that health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?

  William Wilberforce

  Ignorance, Men, World

  William Wilberforce (2013). “A Practical View”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion. Misery is caused by sin, and by no other cause. What business have you with clouded faces? It is terrible. If you have a clouded face, do not go out that day, shut yourself up in your room. What right have you to carry this disease out into the world?

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Men, Cheerful

  Swami Vivekananda (2011). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.59, Duncan Baird Publishers

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope... Especially for girls and women, it is an agent of family health and nutrition.

  Kofi Annan

  Girl, Bridges, Dams

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• All those evil doctrines about God that work misery and madness have their origin in the brains of the wise and prudent, not in the hearts of children.

  George MacDonald

  Wise, Children, Heart

  George MacDonald (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of George MacDonald (Illustrated)”, p.13260, Delphi Classics

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development, an essential complement to investments in roads, dams, clinics and factories.

  Kofi Annan

  Block, Bridges, Essentials

  Kofi Atta Annan (1998). “The quotable Kofi Annan: selections from speeches and statements by the Secretary-General”, United Nations

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• You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.

  Gordon Parks

  Hate, Cameras, Shows

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• American mainstream is obsessed with black creative genius - be it music, walk, style - but at the same time puts a low priority on the black social misery which is the very context out of which that creativity flows.

  Cornel West

  Creativity, Creative, Priorities

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• That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.

  J. C. Ryle

  Mercy Of God, Joy, Heaven

  J.C RYLE, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “HOLINESS;BEING PLAIN PAPERS ON ITS NATURE, HINDRANCES, DIFFICULTIES AND ROOTS”, Lulu.com

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• If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.

  Rick Warren

  Giving, Ministry, Tests

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from May 24, 2013

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• God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.

  Timothy Keller

  Suffering, Misery And Suffering, Willing

  "The Reason for God: Belief in an age of scepticism".

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• Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Tease

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Long Live Hitch: Three Classic Books in One Volume”, p.494, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and for compassion, against cruelty. There is a lot of suffering in the world, but how much suffering can be addressed with literally no time or effort on our part? We can just stop supporting it, by making different choices.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Compassion, Choices, Effort

  "Resolved: Eating Animals Is Indefensible" by Bruce Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2010.

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• Identification with the body, with the mind, with our possessions, with our families, with our friends - any kind of identification takes you outwards. All your possessions will be outwards: your wife, your husband, your children, your body - your body is outside you; your mind - your mind is outside you. The only thing that is not outside you is the witnessing. Just the watchfulness - that is your buddha. Identification means losing witnessing, falling into the trap of attachment. That is our misery, that is our slavery.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Husband, Fall

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• The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Struggle, Government, Survival

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Michael K. Honey (2011). “All Labor Has Dignity”, p.101, Beacon Press

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• If your blood is formed from eating the foods I teach [fruits and green-leaf vegetables] your soul will shout for joy and triumph over all misery of life. For the first time you will feel a vibration of vitality through your body (like a slight electric current) that shakes you delightfully.

  Arnold Ehret

  Blood, Vegetables, Joy

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• We twist our souls around each other’s miseries.

  Anthony Marra

  Soul, Twists

  Anthony Marra (2013). “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena”, p.307, Random House

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• The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don’t think they sing. They just screech in pain. …Taking a close look at what’s around us, there is some sort of harmony: it’s the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.

  Werner Herzog

  Pain, Thinking, Bird

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• Through prayer we can carry in our heart all human pain and sorrow, all conflicts and agonies, all torture and war, all hunger, loneliness and misery, not because of some great psychological or emotional capacity, but because God's heart has become one with ours.

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Pain, War

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.36, HarperCollins

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• Attachment is the root cause of all misery - and our mind is such that it starts clinging to each and everything. It starts becoming identified, attached, it does not know how to keep a distance; hence the misery.

  Rajneesh

  Distance, Attachment, Roots

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• His desperation and misery swept her up like a storm capturing the sea. She turned her mind to even these feelings, because they were his, like his terrified rage in the lift when they had first met, being wrapped in his arms in the cold well, being dazzled by his wonder at the woods and her home and her. Like being a child, awareness of him the morning chorus that woke her and the lullaby that sent her to sleep, his thoughts always her first and last song.I love you, Kami told him, and cut.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Love, Song, Morning

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