Misery Quotes - Page 39

• Don't let misery bring you down.

  Angelique Kidjo

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• Nobody else can really begin to sort out for you what to accept and what to reject in terms of what wakes you up and what makes you fall asleep. No one else can really sort out for you what to accept - what opens up your world - and what to reject - what seems to keep you going round and round in some kind of repetitive misery.

  Pema Chodron

  Fall, World, Wakes You

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

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• The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Feelings, Desire, Causes

  Benjamin Disraeli (1870). “Lothair”, p.135

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• Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God, to whom we declare all our miseries, whose support and help we implore and desire in our adversities, and whom we laud and praise for our benefits received. So that prayer contains the exposition of our sorrows, the desire of God's defence, and the praising of His magnificent name, as the Psalms of David clearly do teach.

  John Knox

  Prayer, Adversity, Talking

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• I am not interested in dry economic socialism. We are fighting against misery, but we are also fighting against alienation. One of the fundamental objectives of Marxism is to remove interest, the factor of individual interest, and gain, from people's psychological motivations. Marx was preoccupied both with economic factors and with their repercussions on the spirit. If communism isn't interested in this too, it may be a method of distributing goods, but it will never be a revolutionary way of life.

  Che Guevara

  Motivation, Fighting, People

  "The Many Faces of Socialism Comparative Sociology and Politics". Book by Paul Hollander, p. 224, 1983.

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• The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Pursuit Of Happiness, World, Modern

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.144, Regent College Publishing

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• I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

  Adolf Hitler

  Moral, Ethical, Economic

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• The more weapons of violence, the more misery to mankind. The triumph of violence ends in a festival of mourning.

  Laozi

  Mourning, Triumph, Weapons

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• If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Heart, World, Break

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• I was writing a lot of true love songs-true love almost gone wrong but saved at the last moment...Many of the best songs get written in a state of abject misery. I prefer to write fewer songs and have less cataclysmic events in my life...Some hit songs are really stupid, and who knows why they're hits. But a lot of hit songs are really good.

  Jorma Kaukonen

  Song, Stupid, Writing

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• If life is misery, why do we endure it?

  Roberto Bolano

  Life Is, Endure, Ifs

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• The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.

  Samuel Johnson

  Cures, Radical, Humans

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.175

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• Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

  Roger Chamberlain

  Too Much, Way, Next

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• I'm not as self-destructive as Dylan Thomas, but I've certainly been around that behavior enough to have found it a release. The thing that I really enjoyed was being able to play misery.

  Tom Hollander

  Self, Play, Able

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• Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Writing, Doe, Causes

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• Though the rich of this earth find no difficulty in creating misery, they can't bear to see it.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Creating, Earth, Bears

  Bertolt Brecht (2015). “The Threepenny Opera”, p.59, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Mood, Things To Do, Best Things

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.229, Random House

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• When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Monsters, Lost

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• The misery stayed, not thought about but aching away, and sometimes I would have to ask myself, Why do I ache? Men can get used to anything, but it takes time.

  John Steinbeck

  Men, Sometimes, He Man

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.125, Penguin

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• In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

  Frank Herbert

  Force, Humans, Estimation

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.89, Penguin

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• I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

  Nelson Mandela

  Tragedy, Determined, Revolutionary

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.70, Pan Macmillan

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• Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.

  Maimonides

  Men, Honor, Add

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• Oh! If those selfish men, who are the cause of all one's misery, only knew what their poor slaves go through! What suffering, what humiliation to the delicate feelings of a poor woman, above all a young one, especially with those nasty doctors.

  Queen Victoria

  Selfish, Men, Doctors

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• Learn that there is no cure for desire, no cure for the love of reward, no cure for the misery of longing, save in the fixing of the sight and hearing on that which is invisible and soundless.

  Mabel Collins

  Sight, Desire, Rewards

  Mabel Collins (2007). “Light on the Path”, p.17, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Misery needs your conspiracy; it needs your help. Without your resistance misery cannot survive.

  Adyashanti

  Needs, Resistance, Helping

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