Quotes of: Miseries Keyword

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

Aeschylus

Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries.

Life

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me.

Vincent Van Gogh

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

William Glasser

I began my work in the '70s, teaching at a university in Bangladesh, and these economic theories that I had learned stopped ringing true for me, as I saw the misery of people living all around me.

Muhammad Yunus

What came first, the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers ...

High Fidelity

Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.

Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds

But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.

Clockwork Prince

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

Five Quarters of the Orange

As the light begins to intensify, so does my misery, and I wonder how it is possible to hurt so much when nothing is wrong.

Forbidden

dream interpretation were ways of converting our little personal miseries into big robust myths

A Good and Happy Child

You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.

A Happy Death

What came first--the music or the misery? Did I listen to music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to music?

High Fidelity

If your comfort zone is misery, it's time to get uncomfortable.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

From one small spark a bushfire grows. Sellers of misery are our foes. Merging ruthlessly tongues of flame. Point your finger at those to blame.

Bushfire

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

John Ruskin

[...] The negative turned positive, black misery sublimated into heightened consciousness, suffering into solidarity!

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag

By today’s standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal.

Hailey's Story

Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more. Proverbs 31:7

Holy Bible: New International Version

After misery follow, or are at least promised to in the unwritten manuscripts of Gods, great things. Sometimes, that great thing can be death.

Johnny Kiddow

When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.

King Lear