Misery Quotes - Page 31

• Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell!

  Victor Villasenor

  Hurt, Pain, Heart

  Victor Villaseñor “Rain of Gold”, Arte Publico Press

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• No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.

  Bob Avakian

  Fate, Brutality, Generations

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• Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.

  Thomas More

  Heart, Pride, Men

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• Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

  Martin Luther

  World, Causes, Uncertainty

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• The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.

  Barbara Walters

  Media, News, Want

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• If you take racism away from certain people - I mean, vitriolic racism as well as the sort of social racist - if you take that away, they may have to face something really terrible, misery, self-misery, and deep pain about who they are.

  Toni Morrison

  Pain, Mean, Self

  "Toni Morrison On Human Bondage And A Post-Racial Age". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2008.

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• It's so easy to write songs about misery and hard times and sadness. It's much more difficult to write songs about happy and chirpy stuff.

  Elton John

  Song, Writing, Sadness

  "A More Reflective Leap On Elton John's 'Diving Board'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 23, 2013.

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• We desire truth, and find within ourselves only uncertainty. We seek happiness, and find only misery and death. We cannot but desire truth and happiness, and are incapable of certainty or happiness.

  Blaise Pascal

  Desire, Certainty, Incapable

  Blaise Pascal (2015). “Pensees: Thoughts on Religion”, p.136, Letcetera Publishing

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• Palestinian militancy has accomplished nothing but increasing the misery of the Palestinian people. If Palestinians instead turned more to huge Gandhi-style nonviolence resistance campaigns, the resulting videos would reverberate around the world and Palestine would achieve statehood and freedom.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  People, Style, Campaigns

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• religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor

  PZ Myers

  Disease, Causes, Significant

  PZ Myers (2013). “The Happy Atheist”, p.88, Vintage

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• Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

  Dean Koontz

  Reality, Causes, Humans

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• You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.

  Sonia

  Love Is, Opposites, Much Love

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• Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Lying, Men, Facts

  Leo Tolstoy (1998). “The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories”, p.17, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Human rights are an aspect of natural law, a consequence of the way the universe works, as solid and as real as photons or the concept of pi. The idea of self- ownership is the equivalent of Pythagoras' theorem, of evolution by natural selection, of general relativity, and of quantum theory. Before humankind discovered any of these, it suffered, to varying degrees, in misery and ignorance.

  L. Neil Smith

  Real, Ignorance, Self

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• So long as millions of human beings in every country has to sell their labour-power to a small minority of owners, and to sink into the most wretched misery if they could find no buyers, the so called “equality before the law” remains a pious fraud, since the laws are made by those who find themselves in possession of the social wealth. But in the same way there can also be no talk of a “right over one's own person,” for that right ends when one is compelled to submit to the economic dictation of another if he does not want to starve.

  Rudolf Rocker

  Country, Law, Long

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• People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

  Ian Frazier

  Russia, People

  "Dispatch From Siberia: The Ian Frazier Interview". Interview with David Coggins, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2010.

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• I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.

  Osamu Dazai

  Loneliness, Hard Work, Men

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.150, New Directions Publishing

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• Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.

  Paul Lafargue

  Pain, Facts, Corruption

  Paul Lafargue (2016). “The Right to be Lazy and Other Studies”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

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• If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.

  John W. Gardner

  Promise, Our Society, Ends

  "No Easy Victories". Book by John William Gardner, ed. Helen Rowan, Harper & Row, p. 57, 1968.

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• And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

  Arthur Golden

  Wall, Men, Leaving

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.111, Random House

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• How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

  Ramsey Clark

  Government, World, Causes

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• Don't settle for comfortable misery, a sad state where you're hanging on to what is most predictable and familiar at the risk of letting exciting opportunities pass you by.

  Dan Miller

  Opportunity, Risk, Hanging On

  Dan Miller (2008). “No More Dreaded Mondays: Ignite Your Passion - and Other Revolutionary Ways to Discover Your True Calling at Work”, p.68, Crown Business

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• How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

  Theodore Dalrymple

  People, Doe, Path

  Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee

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• Just as it is the love of money that is the root of all evil, it is the belief in shamefulness that is the root of all misery.

  Stephen Fry

  Roots, Evil, Belief

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.30, Soho Press

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• Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hysteria, Creating, Feelings

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