#misery

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There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.


Vaclav Havel


#broad #daylight #descend #just #misery

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.


Eric Hoffer


#interesting #man #misery #mother #nobody

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.


Charlie Chaplin


#beings #each #happiness #help #human

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.


Anne Frank


#again #build #confusion #death #foundation

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.


C. S. Lewis


#day #each #endless #every #fact

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.


Jonathan Mayhew


#cruel #folly #man #misery #nations

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.


Paul Merton


#endured #give #happiest #i #indication

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.


Walter Ulbricht


#for the people #great #hunger #misery #people

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.


Louis Mumford


#death #destruction #form #misery #mutilation

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell.


Edvard Munch


#afterlife #children #dangers #early #external