#misery

...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#depression #earth #escape #fear #horror

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#envy #equal #failure #gospel #ignorance

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#become #companies #creates #global #good

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. ↗

— Samuel Daniel

#adversity #distress #examples #fair #greatest

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. ↗

— Voltaire

#misery #spirit #who

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#cannot #happiness #man #misery #purchased

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#baseness #before #cannot #cynicism #easy

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#distant #misery #our #relation #sympathy

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#doing #happiness #men #misery #nothing

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

#disposition #experience #happiness #misery #experience