Quotes About Miseries

i thought about the miseries people conceal and how they manage to survive.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetites, which shake the public with the same —"troublous storms that toss The private state, and render life unsweet." These vices are the causes of those storms. Religion, morals, laws, prerogatives, privileges, liberties, rights of men, are the pretexts.

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

Rain caused one to reflect on the shadowed, more poignant parts of life—the inescapable sorrows, the speechless longings, the disappointments, the regrets, the cold miseries. It also allowed one the leisure to ponder questions unasked in the bustle of brighter days; and if one were snug under a sound roof, as Abel was, one felt somehow mothered, though mothers were nowhere around, and absolved of responsibilities.

Albert Einstein, who reportedly said that music and cats offer the only escape from the miseries of life.

You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead.

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

ao passo que, pela inveja, pelo ciúme e pela ambição, tortura-se voluntariamente e assim aumenta as misérias e as angústias de sua curta existência.

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.

My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning... If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn into a mighty stranger.

For the memory is selective and it is easier to remember what one wants to remember, so if I have to chose between the splendour and the miseries, I will chose the moments of happiness in spite of the fact that there are few situations in which men and women are completely happy and completely free.

We all had our miseries. But to despair was to wish back for something already lost. Or to prolong what was already unbearable. -Suyuan

As the days passed, I began to look upon my fate with new eyes. I often lamented the wicked turns my life had taken, but I rarely considered how much I had to be thankful for, how I had survived so long where so many others had perished, how I had seen wonders that no other Zamori had... I had been so intent on counting all the miseries and humiliations I had endured that I neglected to thank the Almighty for the blessings he had bestowed upon me.

There really is no time for wallowing in the miseries of life: we don't have all the time in the world, we have all the world, and not enough time.

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries.

It's funny how much of the miseries of this world are caused by short people –they are so much more quick-tempered and difficult to get on than the tall ones.

Incidentally, it's funny how often the miseries of this world are caused by short people – they are so much more quick-tempered and difficult to get on with than tall ones. I have always tried to avoid landing up in companies with commanders who are short – usually they are complete bastards.

Incidentally, it's funny how often the miseries of this world are caused by short people - they are so much more quick-tempered and difficult to get on with than tall ones. I have always tried to avoid landing up in companies with commanders who are short - usually they are complete bastards.

There are things you can describe in life and things you just can't. There are dangers and adventures, miseries and fear that you can tell about… well, then there's hope and joy and love – and those are beyond the power of words to describe.

How much harder it is to bear one's splendor than one's miseries!

the only escape from the miseries of life are music and cats...

Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin.

There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.

If women didn't exist, human life would be rid of all its miseries.