Quotes About Misery

It is attachment, identification, which makes us miserable. That is the secret: To think that I am the spirit and not the body, and that the whole of this universe with all its relations, with all its good and all its evil, is but a series of paintings — scenes on a canvas — of which I am the witness.

misery is caused by ignorance and nothing else.

Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

Good and evil have an equal share in moulding character, and in some instances misery is a greater teacher than happiness.

As soon as I begin to feel that I am separate from this universe, then first comes fear, and then comes misery.

Misery comes through attachment, not through work.

If we were really unattached, we should escape all this pain of vain expectation, and could cheerfully do good work in the world. Never will unhappiness or misery come through work done without attachment. The world will go on with its happiness and misery through eternity.

it would be found that it was misery that taught more than happiness, it was poverty that taught more than wealth, it was blows that brought out their inner fire more than praise. Now

all misery comes from fear, from unsatisfied desire.

The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. ... it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? - Ignorance of our own nature.

Ignorance is the mother of all the evil and all the misery we see.

The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for.

Never give way to melancholy: nothing encroaches more; I fight against it vigorously. One great remedy is, to take short views of life. Are you happy now? Are you likely to remain so till this evening? or next week? or next year? Then why destroy present happiness by a distant misery, which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? For every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making.

Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to ...

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.

To heap misery upon misery, red paint has marked the edifices of two more houses—those belonging to the Musgraves and the Riddingtons. Both are honorable families, but I know all too well we never can be sure who may be hiding something dark.

If that type of bad God did exist, then we could go on living in good health. If we could push the responsibility for our misery onto God, then we would have that much more peace of mind, wouldn't we?

money came from human misery and death and despair, as always it does.

Properly speaking, history is nothing but the crimes and misfortunes of the human race.

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

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.

I feel like in the old days, it was once it's a divorce, it's a constant fight until they die. That's how my mom and dad lived. They didn't talk to each other. They hated each other. They only spoke through lawyers. It's just a horrible way to live.

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

Man's obsession to add to his wealth and honor is the chief source of his misery.