Quotes About Misery

Darwin was led to his agnostic naturalism as much by the misery which he observed in the world as by the facts which scientific investigation brought under his notice. There was too much strife and injustice in the world for him to believe in providence and a predetermined goal. A world so full of cruelty and pain he could not reconcile with the omniscience, the omnipotence, the goodness of God.

If the essence of things is unknowable, the misery of man cannot be fathomed.

I tell you, it's misery. There is nothing more dreadful to me than the sight of people getting drunk. And that's what they call life. And that's what you call life. I tell you, it's death.

A vicious circle has taken hold of our able-bodied men: they increasingly rely on the government to alleviate the misery created by that same government, not realizing that this dependency only perpetuates their sorry state of affairs.

The man of affluence is not in fact more happy than the possessor of a bare competency, unless, in addition to his wealth, the end of his life be fortunate. We often see misery dwelling in the midst of splendour, whilst real happiness is found in humbler stations.

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

Se, nesta vida, me quisessem de novo deportar, uma coisa eu saberia: há coisas primeiras que já querem as segundas, mesmo contra o nosso querer. O que é que me compele a manter estas ligações. Porque quero eu, à noite, ter direito à minha miséria. Porque é que não consigo ser livre. Porque obrigo o campo de trabalho a obedecer-me. Saudades de casa. Como se eu precisasse.

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery.

You're nothing. The human species pretends it is so resilient. Mortal lives are one long game of make-believe. If you couldn't lie to yourselves, you'd cut your own throats to end your misery.

There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery - Cassel Sharpe

It will not end well,' Madoc says. 'But I will not stand in front of your happiness. I will not even stand in front of misery that you choose for yourself.

Let me be feared and never again afraid. Let me have everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed, and eternal misery along with it. Let me live on with an ice shard through my heart. -Jude

Normal people," they'd say with a shudder. "Normal people think they're happy, but that because they're too dumb to know any different. Better to be miserable and interesting, right, kiddo?

And if the serpent grows in monstrousness and corruption, if it poisons the land of Elfhame itself, then let me be the queen of monsters. Let me rule over the blackened land with my redcap father as a puppet by my side. Let me be feared and never again afraid. Only out of his spilled blood can a great ruler rise. Let me have everything I ever wanted, everything I ever dreamed, and eternal misery along with it. Let me live on with an ice shard through my heart.

Surely there is nothing more wretched than a man, of all the things which breathe and move upon the earth.

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

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

Some sentiment other than love united these two beings, and inspired with mutual anxiety their movements and their thoughts. Misery is, perhaps, the most powerful of all ties.

under the terrible axiom that "men should have strength of character," — a masculine phrase that has caused many a woman's misery.

Se você tiver qualquer pensamento para mim que você vai me dar de volta a minha paz!'' ''Não pode haver paz para nós, só miséria, e a maior felicidade.

Victory consistently, train all year to be the enemys misery. No stress visibly, neither does it enter me.

Funny how when you have a purpose the misery goes and hides.

Her research had been a bit too graphic for a general readership, and her theory that adolescence didn't have to be full of the misery and rebelliousness it was in America got lost in the uproar.

Most people in our culture have been treated like objects all their lives. This is the source of the wound to the soul underlying most of the human misery that therapists encounter. Because people have come to experience themselves as objects, they in turn objectify other people and commodify the world. They feel alienated, isolated, and empty, believing their lives hold no meaning.