Misery Quotes - Page 26

• 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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• The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.

  Richard Sibbes

  Fall, Depth, Mercy

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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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• 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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• I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

  Brad Pitt

  Happiness, Thinking, Bigs

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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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• Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ideas, Atoms, Separation

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.63, editionNEXT.com

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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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• 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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• Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ignorance, Sorrow, Weakness

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.347, Manonmani Publishers

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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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• Surely if He would not spare His own Son one stroke, one tear, one groan, one sigh, one circumstance of misery, it can never be imagined that ever He should, after this, deny or withhold from His people, for whose sakes all this was suffered, any mercies, any comforts, any privilege, spiritual or temporal, which is good for them.

  John Flavel

  Spiritual, Son, People

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• There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Envy, Causes, Chance

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.116

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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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• Self-indulgence leads only to misery. Nothing great or even worthwhile is ever accomplished without struggle through adversity and self-sacrifice

  Maryam Jameelah

  Struggle, Adversity, Sacrifice

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• Palestinian Arabs [are] people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.

  Ruth Wisse

  Israel, People, Palestinian

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• In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that, in the end, there is light in the darkness.

  Joshua

  Light, Darkness, Comfort

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• All misery and pain come from attachment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Pain, Attachment, Misery And Pain

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.63, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Blame

  Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.81, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.

  C. S. Lewis

  Running, Selfish, Keys

  C. S. Lewis (1952). “Mere Christianity: a revised and enlarged edition, with a new introduction, of the three books, The case for Christianity, Christian behaviour, and Beyond personality”, Scribner Paper Fiction

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• New York city, the incomparable, the brilliant star city of cities, the forty-ninth state, a law unto itself, the Cyclopean Paradox, the inferno with no-out-of bounds, the supreme expression of both the miseries and the splendors of contemporary civilization, the Macedonia of the United States. It meets the most severe test that may be applied to definition of a metropolis - it stays up all night. But also it becomes a small town when it rains.

  John Gunther

  Stars, New York, Rain

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• If you are a taker of happiness you get misery, if you are a giver of happiness you get joy and love.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Joy, And Love, Giver

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (2014). “Celebrating Silence”, p.133, Arktos

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• The Buddhists say there are 121 states of consciousness. Of these, only three involve misery or suffering. Most of us spend our time moving back and forth between these three.

  Jenny Offill

  Buddhist, Moving, Suffering

  Jenny Offill (2014). “Dept. of Speculation”, p.13, Vintage

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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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• 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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