Misery Quotes - Page 22

• I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow--to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.

  Agatha Christie

  Differences, Comfort, Pillow

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• Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends.

  Erica Jong

  Friend Love

  "How to Save Your Own Life". Book by Erica Jong, 1977.

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• The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.

  Erica Jong

  Block, Past, Joy

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Feb 06, 2012

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• The history of art is filled with people who did not live long enough to enjoy a sympathetic public, and their misery argues that criticism should try to speed justice.

  Robert Adams

  Art, Long, People

  Robert Adams (1989). “Beauty in photography: essays in defense of traditional values”

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• Without Jesus Christ man must be in vice and misery with Jesus Christ man is free from vice and misery in Him is all our virtue and all our happiness. Apart from Him there is but vice, misery, darkness, death, despair.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Men, Darkness

  Blaise Pascal (2007). “Thoughts”, p.177, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what it is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.

  Samuel Beckett

  Looks, Speechless, Holes

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We have already discovered the fact that fear is the chief reason for poverty and failure and misery that takes on a thousand different forms. We have already discovered the fact that the man who masters fear may march on to successful achievement in practically any undertaking, despite all efforts to defeat him.

  Napoleon Hill

  Successful, Men, Effort

  Napoleon Hill (2013). “The Law of Success”, p.90, Courier Corporation

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• Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord’s wounds at arm’s length. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human misery, to touch the suffering flesh of others. He hopes that we will stop looking for those personal or communal niches which shelter us from the maelstrom of human misfortune and instead enter into the reality of other people’s lives and know the power of tenderness. Whenever we do so, our lives become wonderfully complicated and we experience intensely what it is to be a people, to be part of a people.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Jesus, Reality

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.76, BookBaby

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• A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snuffled out in roaring agony-and you feel nothing. That's the misery of the world.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Pain, Men, Agony

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• The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should men grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Christian, Men, Catholic Religion

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• It's a Cyprus of misery and soup kitchens and a state which cannot meet basic obligations. It can only cause me grief.

  Nicos Anastasiades

  Grief, Soup Kitchens, Cyprus

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• Our economic order is tightly woven around the exploitation of animals, and while it may seem easy to dismiss concern about animals as the soft-headed mental masturbation of people who really don't understand oppression and the depths of actual human misery, I hope to get you to think differently about suffering and pain, to convince you that animals matter, and to argue that anyone serious about ending domination and hierarchy needs to think critically about bringing animals into consideration.

  Bob Torres

  Pain, Thinking, Animal

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• Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.

  Lester Levenson

  Happiness, Spiritual, Sadness

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• You've been so long in the rain, you feel like a dirty dish rag. But despite the misery of your water soaked body, you look around to see verdant leaves dripping with water. The air entering your lungs smells vibrantly clean. To experience adventure, you must be willing to be uncomfortable at times and enjoy the loneliness by being happy with your own singing. A song pops out of your mouth... "It rained all night the day I left, the weather it was fine..."

  Frosty Wooldridge

  Song, Loneliness, Rain

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• The more miserable you get, the less you should look for an escape (socializing, entertainment). Rather, isolate until you see and let go of the reason for it, or move into your real Self. Never let go of - through escape from misery - a good opportunity to grow.

  Lester Levenson

  Letting Go, Real, Moving

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• If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and misery for no reason than his own despicable enjoyment. God exists though, not for all humanity, but for a one chosen man - a philosopher - who is bound to answer the greatest philosophical question, the question about the nature of the questioner's existence, which progressively quenches the divine vanity.

  Kedar Joshi

  God, Pain, Philosophical

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• Trust not what inspires other members of society to choose as a career. Trust what inspires you. From this decision alone will come over a third of your satisfaction or misery in your life.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Careers, Decision, Inspire

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• If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.

  Lester Levenson

  Spiritual, Perfection, Seeming

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• Misery doesn't only love company. It demands it. For this reason, don't walk away from negative people. RUN!

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Running, People

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• They say misery loves company, but so does mediocrity. Don't let the limiting beliefs of OTHERS limit what's possible for YOU.

  Hal Elrod

  Inspirational, Doe, Mediocrity

  FaceBook post by Hal Elrod from Feb 26, 2017

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• I was once like you, enlightened and "rational",
  I too scoffed at lovers,
  Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery.
  No one is safe! Watch out.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Drunk

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• Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Evil, Wish

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.342

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• Many Christians, though keenly sensitive to the dangers of greed and discontent that come with an economy of continually increasing consumption, nevertheless feel that it is worth risking if only it can end man's physical miseries. The trouble is that it can't. In a finite world, continually increasing consumption is just not possible.

  Joy Davidman

  Christian, Men, Greed

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• When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.

  Frank Laubach

  Jesus, Determination, Children

  Frank Charles Laubach (1958). “The world is learning compassion”

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• Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their populations in a cycle of misery. Corruption must be vigorously addressed if aid is to make a real difference in freeing people from poverty.

  Peter Eigen

  Real, Two, Differences

  "Corruption Still Rampant In 70 Countries, Says Corruption Perceptions Index 2005". www.transparency.org. October 18, 2005.

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