Top 1200 Misery And Suffering Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

Wealth hath never given happiness, but often hastened misery.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind when undeveloped and uncultivated entails great suffering.

Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

Real artists take the misery and sadness of life and translate it into art.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery

...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world].

Human misery is too great for men to die without faith.

A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

It's important to produce economic development. Fundamentalism develops even faster with misery.

I'm holding a teardrop for a friend Until his heartache and misery end.

The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.

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

Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering.

Life is everything. Life is God. Everything shifts and moves, and this movement is God. And while there is life, there is delight in the self-awareness of the divinity. To love life is to love God. The hardest and most blissful thing is to love this life in one's suffering, in the guiltlessness of suffering.

Suffering, I was beginning to think, was essential to a good life, and as inextricable from such a life as bliss. It’s a great enhancer. It might last a minute, but eventually it subsides, and when it does, something else takes its place, and maybe that thing is a great space. For happiness. Each time I encountered suffering, I believed that I grew, and further defined my capacities – not just my physical ones, but my interior ones as well, for contentment, friendship, or any other human experience.

What is the world full of? It is full of things that arise, persist, and cease. Grasp and cling to them, and they produce suffering. Don't grasp and cling to them, and they do not produce suffering.

Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.

I do love translating; it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

Once you have tasted meditation, it is impossible for you to be in any misery. Bliss becomes inevitable.

But pain is perfect misery, the worst Of evils, and excessive, overturns All patience.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

As long as you can savor the humorous aspect of misery and misfortune, you can overcome anything.

Misery is the stuff of comedy, if one can just live long enough to get over it.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

Sorrow is never more sorrowful than when it jests at its own misery.

Suicide is a particularly awful way to die: the mental suffering leading up to it is usually prolonged, intense and unpalliated. There is no morphine equivalent to ease the acute pain, and death, not uncommonly, is violent and grisly. The suffering of a suicidal is private and inexpressible, leaving family members, friends and colleagues to deal with an almost unfathomable kind of loss, as well as guilt. Suicide carries in its aftermath a level of confusion and devastation that is, for the most part, beyond description.

Working in a sugar mill is absolute misery for very little money.

Sleep. To lie down and shut out the noise, the fear, the unceasing misery.

It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.

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

I think the question is, how do we live with change? Change in our friends, change in our lovers? Change in me and change in my body, from the stroke. Things have changed this plane of consciousness. We've tried to keep things the same. It causes suffering. This suffering is another step in your spiritual life, in your spiritual journey.

Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released from was a suffering they had imposed on themselves—and now us. The beast they lived in fear of was really themselves: It was man, not some mythological demon, that was going to destroy man in the end. And this beast had been created out of their fear.

In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.

I grew up watching Kathy Bates, and 'Misery' is one of my favorite films.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

Most of the avoidable suffering in life springs from our attempts to escape the unavoidable suffering inherent in the fragmentary nature of our present existence. We expect immortal satisfactions from mortal conditions, and lasting and perfect happiness in the midst of universal change. To encourage this expectation, to persuade mankind that the ideal is realizable in this world, after a few preliminary changes in external conditions, is the distinguishing mark of all charlatans, whether in thought or action.

When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.

If we just worry about the big picture, we are powerless. So my secret is to start right away doing whatever little work I can do. I try to give joy to one person in the morning, and remove the suffering of one person in the afternoon. If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering. That is the secret. Start right now.

It is human misery and not pleasure which contains the secret of the divine wisdom.

Oh, law and order! I often think it is that that is at the bottom of all the misery in the world.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

Some pro-life advocates focus almost exclusively on the rights and suffering of the unborn baby, while some pro-choice advocates focus equally exclusively on the rights and suffering of pregnant women. This is a distortion of the moral choice that confronts us as a society.

Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.

Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.

Suffering, if you're a Christian, suffering is a part of life. And it's not a bad thing, it is an essential thing in life... There are all different ways to suffer. One way to suffer is through lack of food and shelter and there's another way to suffer which is lack of dignity and hope and there's all sorts of ways that people suffer and it's not just tangible, it's also intangible and we have to consider both.

Why must every eleven minutes of my life be filled with misery?

religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor