Misery Quotes - Page 20

• According to a Pew poll, 49% of young Americans have a favorable view of socialism. What is socialism? it is a system that leads to mass misery, mass impoverishment, and human slaughter. That's what it means. Yet almost half of the young think it's benign.

  David Horowitz

  Mean, Thinking, Views

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• There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sad, Roots, Evil

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.120

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• The first who attracts the eye, the first in enlightenment, in power and in happiness, is the white man, the European, man par excellence; below him appear the Negro and the Indian. These two unfortunate races have neither birth, nor face, nor language, nor mores in common; only their misfortunes look alike. Both occupy an equally inferior position in the country that they inhabit; both experience the effects of tyranny; and if their miseries are different, they can accuse the same author for them.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Eye, Men

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2012). “Democracy in America”, p.303, University of Chicago Press

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• The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Writing, Men, Divulge

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• The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair.

  Iris Murdoch

  Children, Childhood, Despair

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• Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.

  Henry Rollins

  Sadness, Design, Elation

  Song: Obscene

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

  Tryon Edwards

  Parent, Anxiety, Poison

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.86, Ravenio Books

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• Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

  Josephine Baker

  Eye, Men, White Man

  "Contemporary Social Issues" by Raymond Lawrence Lee, p.488, 1955.

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• Many a green isle needs must be In the deep wide sea of Misery, Or the mariner, worn and wan, Never thus could voyage on.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sea, Needs, Green

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.217

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• Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

  Timothy Keller

  Love Is, Our Love, Way

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• I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate.

  Caleb Carr

  Believe, Mountain, My Friends

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• Whatever your religious persuasion, if you believe 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

  Religious, Believe, Suffering

  "The Thought Police Brief Answers to Big Questions: Hoddle Has Gone, but the Question of Evil Remains". www.independent.co.uk. February 07, 1999.

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• Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  War, Suffering Of Others, Depth

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• The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Revenge, Men, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2008). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.101, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• 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

  Confused, Thinking, People

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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• I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.

  Jane Birkin

  Taken, World, Dickens

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• I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

  Danny Boyle

  People, Way, States

  "Danny Boyle Talks Sunshine, Space, and Sci-Fi". Interview with Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. July 19, 2007.

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• Misery is evil; quarreling, a misfortune. There is only one possibility of avoiding both: a clear division of society. [Otherwise] the strong tyrannize the weak, the intelligent frighten the stupid, the inferior resist the superior, and the young mock the old.

  Xunzi

  Strong, Stupid, Intelligent

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• People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries.

  Victoria Abril

  People, Television, Shows

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• I'm evil, my middle name is misery. Well, I'm evil, so don't mess around with me.

  Elvis Presley

  Names, Evil, Middle

  Song: Trouble

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• Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

  Mariah Carey

  Inspirational, Giving, Laughing

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• Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Dream, Humanity, Needs

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• I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

  Grant-Lee Phillips

  Inspiration, Thinking, Easier

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• Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Hinduism, Make You Happy

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• I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.

  Shelby Lynne

  Choices, Comfortable

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