If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.
To be able to celebrate life is religion. In that very celebration you come close to God. If one is able to celebrate, God is not far away; if one is not able to celebrate life, then God does not exist for him. God appears only in deep celebration, when you are so full of joy that all misery has left you, all darkness has left you.
Who goes a-borrowing goes a-sorrowing.
Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery
Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.
religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor
Remember, no more effort is required to aim high in life, to demand abundance and prosperity, than is required to accept misery and poverty.
When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action which produces further confusion, further misery. We fill our hearts with blueprints for world reform and do not look to that one resolving factor which is love.
What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
The economic misery: who passed NAFTA? You know, Bill Clinton signed that with Hillary's [Clinton] support.
What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.
Naught so sweet as melancholy.
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
However much we may feel for the misery of someone close to us, we always act with some artificiality in their presence. We hold-back from telling them everything we think, often because we do not genuinely mean what we say; or because we take a pleasure in their plight, thankful that we are not affected.
When the soul, through its own fault. . . becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.
The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.
If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.