Misery Quotes - Page 13

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.

There are urges and urges; you are exploding with urges, desires. You don`t have one desire, you have many desires. Not only that you have many desires, you have contradictory desires. If one is fulfilled, the other, which is its contradiction, remains unfulfilled and you are in misery. If the other is fulfilled, then something else remains unfulfilled.

I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him.

Time and time again throughout the latter part of the Cold War, liberals chose a morally perverse pose. They would seek to find any suspect motive or impure act on the part of the United States rather than confront the staggering scale of destruction and misery being wrought by our adversaries.

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.

Despair exaggerates not only our misery but also our weakness.

My life has run from misery to happiness.

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

Happiness perches on misery. Misery crouches beneath happiness.

A lot of guys come up talking about The Waterboy. I get a lot of that. Misery, Delores Claiborne and The Waterboy, those are the main ones I get.

Misery loves company, particularly when she is herself the hostess, and can give generously of her stores to others.

The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people.

Misery travels free through the whole world!

Some deny the existence of misery by pointing to the sun; he denies the existence of the sun by pointing to misery.

Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.

Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.

Happiness based on reasons is actually another form of misery.

Misery generates hate.

I could have written a misery memoir and instead I tried to make it funny. I never complained.

The misery we inflict on sentient beings slackens our human evolution.

Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.

I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.

If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.