Misery Quotes - Page 35

• The miserable are sacred.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sacred, Miserable

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• Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

  Seneca the Younger

  Work Out, Desire, Said

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• My adolescence progressed normally: enough misery to keep the death wish my usual state, an occasional high to keep me from actually taking the gas-pipe.

  Faye Moskowitz

  Inspirational, Teenage, Wish

  Faye Moskowitz (2011). “And the Bridge Is Love”, p.57, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• ... bringing up daughters for nothing but marriage, mingles poison in the cup of domestic life, is traitorous to the virtue of both sexes, for neither suffers alone--is adverse to the happiness, to the development of conscience and to religion, and introduces to the dwellings of wretchedness and despair. The result of this degradation is pride, intemperance, licentiousness--nay, every vice, misery, and degradation.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Daughter, Sex, Pride

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• It is confidently expected that the period is at hand, when man, through ignorance, shall not much longer inflict unnecessary misery on man; because the mass of mankind will become enlightened, and will clearly discern that by so acting they will inevitably create misery to themselves.

  Robert Owen

  Ignorance, Men, Hands

  Robert Owen (1837). “First American from the third London edition”, p.76

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• All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

  Blaise Pascal

  Knowing, Mankind, One Thing

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• The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!

  Alan Watts

  Rejection, Ego, Identity

  Alan Watts (2011). “The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are”, p.56, Souvenir Press

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• For Jesus, it is clear, poverty is not the problem; it is the solution. Until human beings learn to live in naked contact and direct simplicity and equality with each other, sharing all resources, there can be no solution to the misery of the human condition and no establishment of God's kingdom. Jesus' radical and paradoxical sense of who could and who could not enter the Kingdom is even more clearly illustrated by his famous praise of children.

  Andrew Harvey

  Jesus, Children, Simplicity

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• In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspiration, Technology, Men

  Isaac Asimov (1951). “The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction”

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• The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Mean, Numbers, Careers

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• And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  War, World, Our Society

  Second Public Talk at Ojai, May 21, 1944.

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• If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!

  Rajneesh

  Change, War, Israel

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• The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.

  Herodotus

  Life, Happiness, Real

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• But God lets men have their playthings, like the children they are, that they may learn to distinguish them from true possessions. If they are not learning that he takes them from them, and
  tries the other way: for lack of them and its misery, they will perhaps seek the true!

  George MacDonald

  Children, Men, Trying

  George MacDonald (1978). “The World of George Macdonald: Selections from His Works of Fiction”, Shaw

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• Although your past has been painful devastating or cruel God has promised to be a Restorer and a Redeemer. He says He will "give us gladness in proportion to our former misery " and "replace the evil years with good".

  Sue Augustine

  Past, Years, Evil

  Sue Augustine (2005). “When Your Past Is Hurting Your Present: Getting Beyond Fears That Hold You Back”, p.46, Harvest House Publishers

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• Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery?

  Squidward Tentacles

  Life Is, Minutes, Eleven

  "Fictional character: Squidward". "SpongeBob SquarePants: Club SpongeBob/My Pretty Seahorse", m.imdb.com. 2002.

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• What, then, is the effect of pesticides? Pesticides have created a legacy of pain, and misery, and death for farm workers and consumers alike. The crop which poses the greatest danger, and the focus of our struggle, is the table grape crop. These pesticides soak the fields. Drift with the wind, pollute the water, and are eaten by unwitting consumers. These poisons are designed to kill, and pose a very real threat to consumers and farm workers alike.

  Cesar Chavez

  Pain, Real, Struggle

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.264, Penguin

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• That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  God, Religious, Hands

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.8, 谷月社

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• Who can estimate the misery that has been caused by this infamous doctrine of eternal punishment? Think of the lives it has blighted-of the tears it has caused-of the agony it has produced. Think of the millions who have been driven to insanity by this most terrible of dogmas. This doctrine renters God the basest and most cruel being in the universe. ... There is nothing more degrading than to worship such a god.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Religious, Thinking, Punishment

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• So many miseries have craz'd my voice,
  That my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute.

  William Shakespeare

  Voice, Woe, Tongue

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.518, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Waiting, Ego, Identification

  Source: www.meditationblog.com

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• Sometimes you're not supposed to enjoy it [acting]. You're supposed to cooperate with misery and proceed anyway. But what I do enjoy is a sense of well-being and just participating in life and life's turns.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Acting, Sometimes, Enjoy

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• God makes all chosen souls pass through a fearful time of poverty, misery, and nothingness. He desires to destroy in them gradually all the help and confidence they derive from themselves so that He may be their sole source of support, their confidence, their hope, their only resource.

  Jean-Pierre de Caussade

  Encouragement, Religious, Support

  Jean Pierre de Caussade (2011). “Abandonment to Divine Providence”, p.349, Ignatius Press

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• A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Hate, Mean

  Mahatma Gandhi (1948). “Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, p.309, Courier Corporation

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• A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Successful, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

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