#miseries

I'm comfortable in my miseries. I have no choice. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#comfortable #i #miseries

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ↗

— Colin Wilson

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

— Herodotus

#control #know #men #miseries #much

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#daily #dreams #even #existence #humanity

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#alone #being #derive #men #miseries

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#been #evils #extensively #faith #had

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#bullets #cannon #composed #corners #debts

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#feel #increased #lost #miseries #now

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#cats #life #means #miseries #music

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#afloat #bound #current #flood #fortune