If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad, threat'ning the welkin with its big-swoll'n face? And wilt though have a reason for this coil? I am the sea. Hark how her sighs doth blow. She is the weeping welkin, I the earth.
To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.
I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice.
If you are to go to Christ, do not put on your good doings and feelings, or you will get nothing; go in your sins, they are your livery. Your ruin is your argument for mercy; your poverty is your plea for heavenly alms; and your need is the motive for heavenly goodness. Go as you are, and let your miseries plead for you.
The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.
To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause.
The happiest people I have known have been those who gave themselves no concern about their own souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.
There are terrible disasters and tragedies and miseries all over the place, in places like Africa with the atrocities in Darfur, India until recently, and China. So many of them have been brought to our notice by television that we've almost become inured to cruelty and disasters and hopelessness in the world. We don't seem to have made an awfully good job of running things as a sort of planetary cabinet.
Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only place u can go. You keep going until it stops hurting, or until you find new things to hurt you worse, I guess. And that is the human condition, all of us lurching along in our own private miseries, because that's the way it is. Because, I guess, God didn't give us any choice. You grow up, I remembered Abigail telling me. You learn.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
When he endures nothing but endless miseries-- What pleasure is there in living the day after day, Edging slowly back and forth toward death? Anyone who warms their heart with the glow Of flickering hope is worth nothing at all. The noble man should either live with honor or die with honor. That's all there is to be said.
How we are born to invent our own miseries!
Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.
No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.
History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.
The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.