Top 1200 Misery And Suffering Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

For they told you life is hard Misery from the start, It's dull, it's slow, it's painful But I tell you life is sweet In spite of the misery There's so much more, be grateful So, who will you believe Who will you listen to Who will it be 'Cause it's high time that you decide It's time to make up your own Your own state of mind Oh they told you life is long Be thankful when it's done Don't ask for more, be grateful But I tell you life is short Be thankful because Before you know it It will be over 'Cause life is sweet, life is also very short

My appetite for self-destruction and misery is greatly diminished. I'm not interested in being unhappy.

Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.

Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.

It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing.

I think that it is a part of growing up, learning to control our suffering. I think that when we grow up, and learn that happiness is rare, and passes quickly, we become disillusioned and hurt. And how much we suffer is a mark of how much we have been hurt by this realisation. Suffering, you see, is a kind of anger. We rage against the unfairness, the injustice of our sad and sorry lot.

There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.

When two peoples share a common passion: they are capable of empathising with each other's misery.

What needs to be grasped is that the system itself is the cause of all of the misery in the world. This is a simple but powerful idea.

At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.

When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man becomes a monster in his misery.

At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love that’s not worth it.” We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth.

There's enough misery in the world today without going out of the way to create more.

The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.

The bliss of the Creator forever permeates all of creation, and it is only in the forgetting that misery exists.

In a world filled with misery and uncertainty, it is a great comfort to know that, in the end, there is light in the darkness.

A lot of people spend their last decade of their lives in pain and misery combating disease.

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

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

Many times I am asked why the suffering of animals should call forth more sympathy from me than the suffering of human beings; why I work in this direction of charitable work more than toward any other. My answer is that because I believe that this work includes all the education and lines of reform which are needed to make a perfect circle of peace and goodwill about the Earth.

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night... Without the satisfaction.

Life is like that - twenty minutes of misery for every two seconds of joy.

Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.

The labor movement was the principal force that transforme­d misery and despair into hope and progress.

It's time to recognize that the EU is beyond reform and deserves to be put out of its misery.

Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests.

Politicians need human misery. ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

I think a lot of the misery that people experience comes from that sensation of boundlessness, of infinite possibility.

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

I fear that we read of war, like women gossip, to enjoy the bitter misery of others.

To stop suffering, stop greediness. Greediness is a source of suffering.

The real thing is that you are suffering from your expectations. When they are not fulfilled - and they are never going to be fulfilled - frustration arises, failure arises, and you feel neglected, as if existence does not care for you. Drop expectations for the future. Remain open, remain available to whatsoever happens, but don't plan ahead. Don't make any psychological, fixed ideas about the future - that things should be like this - and much more suffering will disappear.

In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.

A magical portal opened inside my mind and conducted me into an astonishing world. [...] Before this moment I had divined but had never known with such positiveness that the world is extremely large and that suffering and toil are the companions and fellow warriors not only of Cretan, but of every man. [...] That by means of poetry all this suffering and effort could be transformed into dream; no matter how much of the ephemeral existed, poetry could immortalize it by turning it into song.

I'll let a mystery gas out of my blistery ass Just to disrupt the misery of history class.

I think a lot of songwriters would agree that it's often easier to find inspiration in misery.

Happiness comes from moving toward something. When you run away, ofttimes you bring your misery with you.

Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery.

Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home.

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

I can do something about people who need me, who have been injured. So the biggest thing about being a doctor is my education and training means I can help people to reduce their suffering and that's what being a doctor is, to reduce suffering and to try to improve the life of people who have been injured.

It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good comes of this is not yet listening.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

Religion is the root of so much misery in the world, and I've always thought there is lack of criticism against it.

To be caught happy in a world of misery was for an honest man the most despicable of crimes.

The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

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

What men call adventures usually consist of the stoical endurance of appalling daily misery.

Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly.