Misery Quotes - Page 37

• Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.

  Richard Cecil

  Philosophy, Men, Grace

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• To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.

  Richard Hooker

  Men, Causes, Live By

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• I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

  Frank McCourt

  Happiness, Believe, Too Much

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• A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.

  Daniel Webster

  Happiness, Morning, Light

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1853). “Works: with a Biographical Memoir”, p.105

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• My take on tithing in America is that it's a middle-class way of robbing God. Tithing to the church and spending the rest on your family is not a Christian goal. It's a diversion. The real issue is: How shall we use God's trust fund-namely, all we have-for His glory? In a world with so much misery, what lifestyle should we call our people to live? What example are we setting?

  John Piper

  Christian, Real, Class

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• Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

  John Locke

  Men

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• We do not smirk at the misery or the merrymaking of immoral culture. We weep. Being pilgrims does not mean being cynical. The salt of the earth does not mock rotting meat. Where it can, it saves and seasons. And where it can’t, it weeps.

  John Piper

  Mean, Cynical, Rotting

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• A church that is deeply aware of it's misery and nakedness before a holy God will cling tenaciously to an all sufficient Savior, while one that is self-confident and relatively unaware of its inherent sinfulness will reach for religion and morality whenever it seems convenient

  Michael Horton

  Self, Church, Morality

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• The view of the misery of the damned will double the ardour of the love and gratitude of the saints of heaven.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Gratitude, Views, Heaven

  Jonathan Edwards, Henry Rogers, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1839). “The Works of Jonathan Edwards, A.M.: With an Essay on His Genius and Writings”, p.87

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• God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.

  John Piper

  Moving, People, Found

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• My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and the streets spoke to me in that sad, bitter language compounded of human misery, yearning, regret, failure, wasted effort

  Henry Miller

  Regret, Effort, World

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• He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

  Voltaire

  Spirit, Spirituality

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• Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings?

  William Morris

  Wall, Thinking, Two

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.6494, Delphi Classics

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• Sin carries in it its own misery.

  John Piper

  Sin, Carrie

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• Whenever you put happiness before righteousness, you will be doomed to misery. That is the great message of the Bible from beginning to end. They alone are truly happy who are seeking to be righteous.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Bible, Messages, Ends

  David Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1959). “Studies in the Sermon on the Mount”

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• I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Hate, Add

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• The misery of us, that are born great, We are forced to woo because none dare woo us.

  John Webster

  Born, Dare

  1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 1, sc.1.

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• [T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

  Anthony Powell

  Tease, Innate, Greater

  Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: Second Movement”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• Almost all men, and those that seem to be very miserable, love life, because they cannot bear to lose sight of such a beautiful and lovely world. The ideas, that every moment whilst we live have a beauty that we take not distinct notice of, brings a pleasure that, when we come to the trial, we had rather live in much pain and misery than lose.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Beautiful, Pain, Love Life

  "The Images of Divine Things, The Shadows of Divine Things, The Language and Lessons of Nature". Notebook by Jonathan Edwards, "The Beauty of the World" (c.1725), 1948.

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• To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

  Hugh Blair

  Unhappy, Cruelty, Creatures

  Hugh Blair, Alfred Howard (Esq.) (1810). “The Beauties of Blair: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.18

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• Why does God bless us with abundance? So we can have enough to live on and then use the rest for all manner of good works that alleviate spiritual and physical misery. Enough for us; abundance for others.

  John Piper

  Spiritual, Environmental, Doe

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.203, Multnomah

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• Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.

  John Locke

  Karma, Men, Evil

  John Locke (1813). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.250

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• Forget horror icon, Kety Bates is an icon. She's an acting icon. I was raised on so many of her films, everything from Misery to Fried Green Tomatoes to Delores Claiborne, all films that I've watched multiple times and been inspired by.

  Matt Bomer

  Icons, Acting, Tomatoes

  "Matt Bomer Geeks Out Over Kathy Bates, Teases His New Ahs: Hotel Character". Interview with Fred Topel, editorialstaging.rottentomatoes.com. October 6, 2015.

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• I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

  Caitlin Moran

  Memoir, Written

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Lying, Men

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