Quotes of: Miseries Keyword

Every time there has been an effort by the Haitian people to overcome the misery and poverty that comes from 200 years of bitter attacks, really bitter, the U.S. steps in and blocks it.

Noam Chomsky

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

Allen Toussaint

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Aldous Huxley

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

Albert Schweitzer

I would not anticipate the relish of any happiness, nor feel the weight of any misery, before it actually arrives.

Love

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston S. Churchill

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others.

Daisaku Ikeda

The worst feeling was poor. Because in Haiti, so many people are poor, it's nothing to be ashamed of. And there's always a way to , to get by, even when you have nothing. But misery in the United States is harder than misery in Haiti. You feel like i...

Hold Tight, Don't Let Go: A Novel of Haiti

Life works on the same principle as a boomerang. It's simple, really—what you send out you get back. A smiling face receives many smiles. Friendliness finds itself surrounded by friends. Giving hugs creates hugs. Offered help is reciprocated. In co...

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

From the standpoint of the upper classes, the system had many merits. They felt that what was paid out of the poor rate was charity, and therefore a proof of their benevolence; at the same time, wages were kept at starvation level by a method which j...

Bertrand Russell

Whatever the misery, he could not regain contentment with a world which, once doubted, became absurd.

Babbitt

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Blankets

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

Books and You

We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.

Henry Rollins

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

Krapp's Last Tape & Embers

All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart.

Sonny's Blues

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Les Misérables

That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery.

A Life In A Moment

If happiness shouldn't make you so miserable, misery shouldn't make you so happy.

The Six Rules of Maybe

I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.

The Sea of Tranquility

Either give me your hand, or end it now, and put us both out of our misery

Paradise