Because we live in a largely free society, we tend to forget how limited is the span of time and the part of the globe for which there has ever been anything like political freedom: the typical state of mankind is tyranny, servitude, and misery.
For ages, a deadly conflict has been waged between a few brave men and women of thought and genius upon the one side, and the great ignorant religious mass on the other. This is the war between Science and Faith. The few have appealed to reason, to honor, to law, to freedom, to the known, and to happiness here in this world. The many have appealed to prejudice, to fear, to miracle, to slavery, to the unknown, and to misery hereafter. The few have said "Think" The many have said "Believe!"
The subjunctive mood is in its death throes, and the best thing to do is to put it out of its misery as soon as possible.
Cormac interrupted. 'Maybe I oughta shoot you both, put you both out of your misery.
Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these days of changing fortunes of being rich today and poor tomorrow they may have something tangible to fall back upon. This provision might save many persons from misery, who by some unexpected turn of fortune have lost all their means.
(The difficulty over the question of eternal torments lies in) how it is irreconcilable with the Goodness of God, to put any Persons at all upon a necessity of making such an Option, wherein if they choose amiss, the Misery they incur must be irrevocable.
You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.
Even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there’s no reason to add to everyone’s misery by looking miserable yourself.
If they had $2. 00 for food, they had to give $1. 00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the trap of poverty. They would never have a union because they couldn't afford to sacrifice a little bit more on top of their misery.
Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.
Old age is your own creation: it can be a misery, it can be a celebration; it can be simply a despair, and it can also be a dance. It all depends how deeply ready you are to accept existence, whatsoever it brings.
Happiness is only the threshold to misery. When a friend refuses to share in joys.
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.
All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.
Misery motivates, not utopia.
The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.
The mind is the world and the no-mind is freedom from the world. The mind is misery and no-mind is the end of misery and the beginning of ecstasy.
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.
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement.
Some people are so addicted to their misery that they will destroy anything that gets in the way of their fix.