Misery Quotes - Page 40

• Wherever there is a religious regime, over there there is ignorance, misery and absurdity! No religious state can ever elevate its own people! Sooner or later, the primitiveness of the religious administrations and the irrationality of the religious rules will cause a great collapse of those countries! The downfall is inevitable!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Country, Religious, Ignorance

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• Misery loves company. There's a lot to that.

  Harvey Pekar

  Company

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate

  William Wilberforce

  Ignorance, Bored, Missing

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• The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven." There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heaven, Choices, Soul

  "The Great Divorce". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1945.

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• Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

  Dalai Lama

  Resentment, Vengeance, Increase

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• I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Thinking, Humanity, Values

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• When happiness gets into your system, it is bound to break out on your face. While money can't buy happiness it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery. You always know, at this very moment, exactly what it would be to look, and feel, and be, and act completely Happy.

  Adi Da

  Faces, Would Be, Break Out

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• In the middle of this despair [of postwar Germany], my family learned about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the healing message of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. This message made all the difference; it lifted us above our daily misery. Life was still thorny and the circumstances still horrible, but the gospel brought light, hope, and joy into our lives. The plain and simple truths of the gospel warmed our hearts and enlightened our minds. They helped us look at ourselves and the world around us with different eyes and from an elevated viewpoint.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Jesus, Eye, Healing

  "Have We Not Reason to Rejoice?". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's priesthood session address at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. November 2007.

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• Not knowing who God made us to be, trying to be who we are not, or even just desiring to be someone else, can only lead to a life of misery, frustration, and unfulfillment.

  Stormie Omartian

  Frustration, Knowing, Trying

  Stormie Omartian (2014). “The Power of a Praying® Parent”, p.79, Harvest House Publishers

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• Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

  Ann Rinaldi

  Stupidity

  Ann Rinaldi (1996). “Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley”, Gulliver Books

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• No one can usurp the heights...
  But those to whom the miseries of the world
  Are misery, and will not let them rest.

  John Keats

  World, Height

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• There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mystery

  Oscar Wilde (2002). “The Happy Prince”, p.12, Electric Book Company

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• Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.

  Bryant H. McGill

  People, Way, Miserable People

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• A little misery, at times, makes one appreciate happiness more.

  L. Frank Baum

  Appreciate, Littles

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)”, p.1087, Delphi Classics

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• Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

  Michael Joseph Oakeshott

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Predicaments, Attaining Happiness

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• So it can be for us as we allow the stirrings of hope to motivate us to action; and then as we act so that our hope becomes faith, that faith gives us power and enthusiasm for the principles of the gospel, which leads us to further action. Soon, we are lifted out of the state of hopelessness, and we begin to aid those around us by working to make the world a better place, rather than languishing in misery watching the world go by without us.

  David S. Baxter

  Giving, World, Enthusiasm

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• However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Thinking, Plight

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• Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

  Henry Ford

  Looks, Causes, Individual

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.139, 谷月社

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• One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

  Dean Koontz

  People, Sorrow, Alive

  Dean Koontz (2003). “Lightning”, p.24, Penguin

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• Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer, with the screen blank and the cursor blinking, was the best escape I knew. And there was plenty to escape from.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Writing, Sitting, Ongoing

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• Those who know the joys and miseries of celebrities when they have passed the age of forty know how to defend themselves.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Joy, Age, Forty

  Sarah Bernhardt (2013). “My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt”, p.372, Library of Alexandria

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• I want to live as long as I can do good; but not an hour longer than I can live in fellowship with the Holy Spirit, with my Father in heaven, my Savior, and with the faithful Latter-day Saints. To live any longer than this would be torment and misery to me. When my work is done I am ready to go; but I want to do what is required of me.

  Wilford Woodruff

  Father, Long, Heaven

  Wilford Woodruff (2015). “Leaves from my Journal”, p.93, Noodle-Doo Studios

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• She (Judy Garland) was a friend of mine, a trying friend, but a friend. That is what I tell myself: She did everything she ever wanted to do. She never really denied herself anything for me. See, I say, she had a wonderful life; she did what she wanted to do. And I have no right to change her fulfillment into my misery. I'm on my own broom now.

  Liza Minnelli

  Trying, Wonderful, Garlands

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do you know why God subjects you to so many miseries? That He may bestow on you the riches of heaven.

  Paul of the Cross

  Heaven, May, Riches

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• Religion of every kind involves the promise that the misery and futility of existence can be overcome or even transfigured. One might suppose that the possession of such a magnificent formula, combined with the tremendous assurance of a benevolent God, would make a person happy. But such appears not to be the case.: unease and insecurity and rage seem to keep up with blissful certainty, and even to outpace it.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Insecurity, Promise, Overcoming

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