Misery Quotes - Page 39

• Far from being the crown of human thought and religion as its supporters have claimed for several bloody millennia, [monotheism] is in fact a monstrous step backwards--a step that has been responsible for more human misery than any other idea in known history.

  Isaac Bonewits

  Ideas, Crowns, Facts

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• It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.

  Publilius Syrus

  Companion, Consolation, Wretched

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 995, 1856.

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• I always thought it better to allow myself to doubt before I decided, than to expose myself to the misery, after I had decided, of doubting whether I had decided rightly and justly.

  John Scott

  Doubt, Decided

  "The Public and Private Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon: With Selections from His Correspondence". Book by Horace Twiss, 1844.

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• I ask the political economists and the moralists if they have ever calculated the number of individuals who must be condemned to misery, overwork, demoralisation, degradation, rank ignorance, overwhelming misfortune and utter penury in order to produce one rich man.

  Almeida Garrett

  Ignorance, Men, Order

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• Once I was a prisoner lost inside myself with the world surrounding me, wandering through the misery, but now I am free. Free to love, free to laugh, free to soar, free to shine, free to give.

  Mariah Carey

  Inspirational, Giving, Laughing

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• The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery.

  Winston Churchill

  Vices, Politics, Prosperity

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• Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Reality, Imagination, Doe

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• Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope. It is a tool for daily life in modern society. It is a bulwark against poverty, and a building block of development... For everyone, everywhere, literacy is, along with education in general, a basic human right.... Literacy is, finally, the road to human progress and the means through which every man, woman and child can realize his or her full potential.

  Kofi Annan

  Children, Block, Mean

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• We make our days pleasant or miserable. If we insist on being miserable, irritable and nasty, more than likely the day will give us exactly what we give it. A day is too valuable to waste on misery and unhappiness.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Giving, Waste, Nasty

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 25, 2016

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• The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Perfection, Soul, Vedas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Chicago Addresses”, p.17, Advaita Ashrama

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• The lower animals, like man, manifestly feel pleasure and pain, happiness and misery. Happiness is never better exhibited than by young animals, such as puppies, kittens, lambs, &c., when playing together, like our own children.

  Charles Darwin

  Children, Pain, Animal

  Charles Darwin (2007). “The Descent of Man: The Concise Edition”, p.107, Penguin

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  Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole

  Karl Marx

  Ignorance, Opposites, Agony

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.709, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic. Ask the questions that will uplift your spirit and push you along the path of human excellence

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Creating

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Aug 11, 2015

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• False hope is clung to with all one's might and main, till a day comes when it has sucked the heart dry and it forcibly breaks through its bonds and departs. After that comes the misery of awakening, and then once again the longing to get back into the maze of the same mistakes.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mistake, Heart, Break Through

  Rabindranath Tagore (2016). “Stories from Tagore”, p.81, Rabindranath Tagore

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• I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery. We don’t want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Beautiful, Hate, Men

  "Fictional character: Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania / A Jewish Barber)". "The Great Dictator", www.imdb.com. October 15, 1940.

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• We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.

  Albert Camus

  Writing, Common, Speak

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• Misery is not given by anyone or anything in life. It is your own mind which makes you miserable or happy and uplifted.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Mind, Miserable, Given

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• In life you can either have a guru or misery, you cannot have both.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Guru

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• You are the cause of your own joy or your own misery. You hold that power. You are your own friend and your own enemy.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Joy, Enemy, Causes

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• The chief misery of the decline of the faculties, and a main cause of the irritability that often goes with it, is evidently the isolation, the lack of customary appreciation and influence, which only the rarest tact and thoughtfulness on the part of others can alleviate.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Appreciation, Causes, Isolation

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.260, Transaction Publishers

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• A sage once said, ‘How shall I open my heart, oh friend? It is forbidden for me to speak. I am about to die for lack of a kindred soul to understand my misery. Simply by looking in her eyes I find the beloved of my heart. But rare is such a soul who swims in ecstatic bliss on the high tide of heavenly love.

  Trevor Hall

  Eye, Heart, Swim

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• Knowledge is the vaccination that keeps you away from the flu of misery

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Flu, Vaccinations

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• Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Ignorance, Dark, Littles

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.55, Manonmani Publishers

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• If Christ has risen the Bible is true from Genesis to Revelation. The kingdom of darkness has been overthrown. Satan has fallen like lightning from heaven; and the triumph of truth over error, of good over evil, of happiness over misery, is forever secured.

  Charles Hodge

  Errors, Evil, Forever

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.627

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• Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Music, Drawing, Mind

  Letter to Theo from The Hague, July 21, 1882.

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