Misery Quotes - Page 38

• Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.

  Annette Funicello

  Pain, Parts Of Life

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• Democracy alone can supply the vitalizing force to stir the peoples of the world into triumphant action, not only against their human oppressors, but also against their ancient enemies-hunger, misery, and despair.

  Harry S. Truman

  Enemy, Democracy, Despair

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1949

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• Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that.

  Epictetus

  Thinking, Mood

  Epictetus (1877). “The Discourses of Epictetus: With the Encheiridion and Fragments”, p.75

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• The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal will take care of themselves. Look after the courts of the poor, who stand most in need of justice. The security of the republic will be found in the treatment of the poor and the ignorant. In indifference to their misery and helplessness lies disaster.

  Charles Evans Hughes

  Lying, Justice, Ignorant

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• Like my parents, I have never been a regular church member or churchgoer. It doesn't seem plausible to me that there is the kind of God who watches over human affairs, listens to prayers, and tries to guide people to follow His precepts - there is just too much misery and cruelty for that.

  Benjamin Spock

  Prayer, People, Parent

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• To take all that we are and have and hand it over to God may not be easy; but it can be done; and when it is done, the world has in it one less candidate for misery.

  Paul Scherrer

  Hands, Done, World

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• Talk therapy turns hysterical misery to mundane unhappiness.

  Sigmund Freud

  Unhappiness, Hysterical, Turns

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• Only a handful of Germans in the Reich had the slightest conception of the eternal and merciless struggle for the German language, German schools, and a German way of life. Only today, when the same deplorable misery is forced on many millions of Germans from the Reich, who under foreign rule dream of their common fatherland and strive, amid their longing, at least to preserve their holy right to their mother tongue, do wider circles understand what it means to be forced to fight for one's nationality.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mother, Dream, Struggle

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• I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.

  Charles Darwin

  Design, World, Too Much

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• So great is the compassion excited in Mary by our misery, and such is the love that she bears us, that she prays constantly, and relaxes not her efforts in our behalf.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Compassion, Effort, Relax

  St. Alphonsus Liguori (1995). “Hail Holy Queen!: An Explanation of the Salve Regina”, p.74, TAN Books

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• I saw the abyss of my misery; whatever there is of good in me is Yours, O Lord. But because I am so small and wretched, I have a right to count on Your boundless mercy.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Saws, Mercy, Lord

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• So long as the great majority of the poor in any country are inert and are laboring without any hope in this world, the whole associated life of that community rests on an equivocal foundation. Its moral and social order is tied to an economic system which starves and mutilates the great majority of the population, and under such conditions its religion necessarily becomes a spiritual drug, administered for the purpose of subduing the popular discontent and relieving the popular misery.

  Herbert Croly

  Spiritual, Country, Order

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• I am made of God, through his Grace. Such that your misery touches me not, Nor does flame of that burning assail me.

  Dante Alighieri

  Flames, Grace, Doe

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• If, as you believe there is an Almighty, Omnipresent, Omniscient God, who created the earth or universe, please let me know, first of all, as to why he created this world. This world which is full of woe and grief, and countless miseries, where not even one person lives in peace....Where is God? What is He doing? Is He getting a diseased pleasure out of it? A Nero! A Genghis Khan! Down with Him!

  Bhagat Singh

  Grief, Believe, Nero

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• You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.

  Elvis Costello

  Drug, Way

  "For Elvis Costello, eclectic taste and self-reinvention started at home". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. November 2, 2015.

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• My outlook was so limited that I assumed that all deviates were openly despised and rejected. Their grief and their fear drew my melancholy nature strongly. At first I only wanted to wallow in their misery, but, as time went by, I longed to reach its very essence. Finally I desired to represent it. By this process I managed to shift homosexuality from being a burden to being a cause. The weight lifted and some of the guilt evaporated.

  Quentin Crisp

  Grief, Essence, Guilt

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• Sometimes we are inclined to think that a very great portion of modern revivalism has been more a curse than a blessing, because it has led thousands to a kind of peace before they have known their misery; restoring the prodigal to the Father’s house, and never making him say, “Father, I have sinned.”

  Charles Spurgeon

  Father, Blessing, Thinking

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• Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Pain, Mistake

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Karma Yoga: The Yoga of Action”, p.4, Advaita Ashrama

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• The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Soul, Needs, Links

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2017). “Joy Upon Joy: An Advent Devotional”, Whitaker House

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• Anything we do to fight misery and ignorance and poverty, no matter how imperfect it may be, is still better than doing nothing at all.

  Peter Prange

  Ignorance, Fighting, May

  Peter Prange (2011). “The Philosopher's Kiss: A Novel”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone is scared of having a free sexual life and what they do is go on the Internet and masturbate. This is the pure sexual misery today. They don't even go to the movie theater like in the '70s.

  Olivier Zahm

  Today, Scared, Internet

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• The Baptists believe in The Right to Life before you're born. They also believe in Life After Death, but that is a privilege and you have to earn it by spending the interim in guilt-ridden misery. At an early age I decided that living a life of pious misery in the hope of going to heaven when it's over is a lot like keeping your eyes shut all through a movie in the hope of getting your money back at the end.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Believe, Eye, Heaven

  A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial

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• Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world.

  Bob Black

  World, Source

  Bob Black (1986). “The Abolition of Work and Other Essays”, Loompanics Unltd

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• The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds: men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light. The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus.

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Father, Ocean

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “That Hideous Strength”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• I want everybody to be happy because, if you're happy, you are more open to other people. Don't let misery bring you down.

  Angelique Kidjo

  People, Want, Ifs

  Source: www.pbs.org

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