#misery

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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

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.


Robertson Davies


#feel #help #hoping #i #impertinence

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


Boethius


#been #fortune #happy #misery #sort

There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a perpetual misery there.


Brian Cox


#darker #ferry #glasgow #gloomy #humour

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

Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery?


Mary Balogh


#gray-book #life #misery #white #experience

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.


Samuel Johnson


#depend #disagreeable #him #his #man

Shall each man," cried he, "find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man! You may hate, but beware! Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness forever. Are you to be happy while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness? You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains—revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food! I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery. Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful. I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom. Man, you shall repent of the injuries you inflict.


Mary Shelley


#love #misery #passion #revenge #food

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.


Martha Washington


#depends #dispositions #greater #happiness #misery

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.


Matthew Arnold


#himself #his #know #loses #misery