Quotes About Misery

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It is indeed probable that more harm and misery has been caused by men determined to use coercion to stamp out a moral evil than by men intent on doing evil. —Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty, 1960

Most especially, he was miserable because of Donald Trump, whose cruelties, always great even when they were casual, were unbearable when he truly turned against you.

Päinvastoin kuin nautinto, halu itsessään tuottaa kärsimystä, vihaa ja onnettomuutta.

Everything hurts.

The worst thing about depression is how true your vision seems, like misery is the only correct perspective and everything you think when you're happy is a sham. I didn't even want to be happy anymore because I'd rather live in honest misery than fake bliss. I

Many things can make you miserable for weeks; few can bring you a whole day of happiness.

If human misery and efficient boredom could be beautiful, there would have been a kind of beauty in the endlessly replicated, hot-desking, rack-mounted workers and their swiftly exchangeable work stations. Lit up by the dead light of our monitors we would constantly scratch at our keyboards—it could have been sadly romantic, if it hadn't been for the sirens. Hanging

One good thing about New York is that most people function daily while in a low-grade depression. It's not like if you're in Los Angeles, where everyone's so actively working on cheerfulness and mental and physical health that if they sense you're down, they shun you. Also, all that sunshine is a cruel joke when you're depressed. In New York, even in your misery, you feel like you belong.

The foe loves destruction and misery.

Life is a passage ; trees fall. Tread on the evil, put down my misery!

i s njom nije bilo dosadno pijuckati burgundac, razgovarati o tome kako su ljudi glupi, slabi uglavnom, nesretni, slušati jesenji vjetar kako pla?e oko ku?e, plamen kako liže u pe?i, a Jadviga pri?a o ljubavi i o tome kako je ljubav najve?a laž me?u lažima. Jedan jedini put ljubila je u životu, a i to je bilo glupo.

Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.

Oh, do not make me, by your harsh command, Complain to Heaven you ever were my father; Do not make wretched this poor life you gave me.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

a "brave new world of affluent depravity."44 Genovese sees it as ironic that the defeat of the South, of slav- ery, opened the doors to an imperialism that imposed "unprec- edented misery and mass slaughter on the world.

Some people claim that expectation is the source of all misery, while others claim that attachment is the root cause.

Part of the problem in our contemporary debates about asylum seekers or about the Middle East is that our politicians still want to present us with the dream of progress, the steady forward advance of the golden dream of freedom; and when the tide of human misery washes up on our beaches or when people in cultures very different from our own seem not to want the kind of freedom we had in mind, it is not just socially but ideologically untidy and inconvenient.

If the children of Israel had heeded the Deuteronomic warnings, there would have been more milk and honey, and less misery and injustice, when they eventually crossed the Jordan.

The logic of the rebel is to want to serve justice so as not to add to the injustice of the human condition, to insist on plain language so as not to increase the universal falsehood, and to wager, in spite of human misery, for happiness. —Albert Camus

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.'" "Quoting Shakespeare

The two armies which but recently attacked you with audacity are fleeing before you in terror; the wicked men who laughed at your misery and rejoiced at the thought of the triumphs of your enemies are confounded and trembling.

You may be hurt if you love too much, but you will live in misery if you love too little.

Nod house turned into shout house. In the shout house memory said shut up. It said silence, misery said amen, the mule's head meant my stubborn lungs. . . I stood imagining I fell back dreaming, stuck tongue stuck in my jaw broke my jaw