#misery

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I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.


Aeschylus


#know #many #misery #proper #purifying

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?


Joseph Addison


#cruel #delights #father #make #man

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.


Mikhail Bakunin


#church #few #forget #free #go

Apple is a wonderful company for its customers and investors. So, too, Pixar. (NeXT, not so much...) But Apple is also an engine of misery for its subcontracted Chinese workers.


Eric Alterman


#apple #chinese #company #customers #engine

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.


Jean-Bertrand Aristide


#as far as #concerned #country #dignity #far

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.


Larry David


#empty #ensure #forty #forty years #generation

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.


Josh Billings


#man #misery #must #numb #suffer

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.


Josh Billings


#between #difference #enjoy #misery #only

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.


Boethius


#been #fortune #happy #misery #sort

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.


Graham Greene


#another #any #bearing #condemned #courage