Misery Quotes - Page 34

• Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Miserable, Bowels

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.136

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• I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Hate, Tragedy, Literature

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• Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you
  to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Impossible, Bliss

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• If we would induce others to act virtuously, it will prove more effectual to show them their capacities than to expose their weakness--to attract them by a fairer ideal than to terrify them by pictures of misery and shame.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Weakness, Shame, Capacity

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• Religion urges us to fight evil as contrary to the Divine Law. It urges us to combat abject misery, sin and disease because God is. In His name we can work, as we believe in co-operation with Him, since through Him goodness must ultimately prevail.

  Lily Montagu

  Women, Believe, Fighting

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• our right or wrong use of money is the utmost test of character, as well as the root of happiness or misery, throughout our whole lives.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Money, Character, Roots

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• Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.

  Philip Sidney

  Wise, Fool, Action

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.47

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• Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

  Philip Sidney

  Fortune, Misfortunes

  Sir Philip Sidney (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)”, p.396, Delphi Classics

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• Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.

  Philip Sidney

  Greatness, Despair, Able

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.151

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• No doubt hard work is a great police agent. If everybody were worked from morning till night, and then carefully locked up, the register of crime might be greatly diminished. But what would become of human nature? Where would be the room for growth in such a system of things? It is through sorrow and mirth, plenty and need, a variety of passions, circumstances, and temptations, even through sin and misery, that men's natures are developed.

  Arthur Helps

  Morning, Hard Work, Passion

  Sir Arthur Helps (1848). “Friends in Council: A Series of Readings and Discourse Thereon”, p.55

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• Misery makes sport to mock itself.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Mock

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.870, Oxford University Press

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• Mistrusts sometimes come over one's mind of the justice of God. But let a real misery come again, and to whom do we fly? To whom do we instinctively and immediately look up?

  Benjamin Haydon

  God, Real, Justice

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.468

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• It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

  Decimius Magnus Ausonius

  Dowry, Happens

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• Tax reduction has an almost irresistible appeal to the politician, and it is no doubt also gratifying to the citizen. It means more dollars in his pocket, dollars that he can spend if inflation doesn't consume them first. But dollars in his pocket won't buy him clean streets or an adequate police force or good schools or clean air and water. Handing money back to the private sector in tax cuts and starving the public sector is a formula for producing richer and richer consumers in filthier and filthier communities. If we stick to that formula we shall end up in affluent misery.

  John W. Gardner

  Mean, School, Cutting

  John W. Gardner (1971). “The Recovery of Confidence”

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• Misery generates hate.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Hate, Unhappiness

  Charlotte Bronte (2009). “Shirley: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It is not I who die, when I die, but my sin and misery.

  Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

  Death, Sin, Dies

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• Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Cottages, Palaces, Born

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.162

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• It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been acquired, or the misery that it entails.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Mean, Would Be, Poverty

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• Is there anything more true than human pain? Is there anything more sincere than the cry for help from those who suffer? Only a great wave of mankind's pity can surmount an immense wave of human misery?

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Pain, Suffering, Helping

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• The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.

  Dalai Lama

  Change, Suffering, Three

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• Why does the guerrilla fighter fight? We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.

  Che Guevara

  Brother, Fighting, Order

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.52, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• There was a time when only wise books were read helping us to bear our pain and misery. This, after all, is not quite the same as leafing through a thousand works fresh from psychiatric clinics. And yet the world is different from what it seems to be and we are other than how we see ourselves in our ravings.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Wise, Pain, Book

  Czeslaw Milosz, “Ars Poetica?”

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• There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Paint

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1834). “Francesca Carrara”, p.18

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• This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom--the very fashion of which "passeth away.

  Francois Fenelon

  Fashion, Vanity, Attachment

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.103, Lulu.com

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• Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

  Deepak Chopra

  Reason, Form

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