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The history of empires is the record of human misery; the history of the sciences is that of the greatness and happiness of mankind.
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
The ego is just waiting to identify with anything. Whether it's your misery or being a great meditator, it seeks some identification.
Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.
The ego will endure the worst agonies of neurotic misery rather than consent to one minute of diminishment of its sense of importance.
Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product.
There is less misery in being cheated than in that kind of wisdom which perceives, or thinks it perceives, that all mankind are cheats.
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.
The alternative to peace is war, which will expose everyone to mass casualties, misery and a loss of perspective for many years to come.
There is no greater stupidity than for people...to marry and so surrender themselves to the small miseries of domestic and private life.
As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.
Never fear Death for you will feel aroused by his sleep. Never cheat death or he will slap you with a sentence of misery for the defeat.
During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
I am deeply concerned about the impact of poverty on children because poverty can destroy their future and bind them to a life of misery.
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.
Where there is clarity, there is no choice. And where there is choice, there is misery. But then, why should I speak, since I know nothing?
I do not know what horrified me most [during the depression]: the economic misery of my companions [or] their moral and ethical coarseness.
I used to have a phrase: Liberalism is spreading misery equally. And now the ruling class throughout Washington seems to have adopted this.
Nothing of substance is being achieved or even proposed, while the country remains trapped in the Kafka-esque misery that Brexit has become.
...Choice in every form is conflict. Contradiction is inevitable in choice; this contradiction, inner and outer breeds confusion and misery.
As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.
If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.
Maybe there is something specifically Scandinavian that comes out of the long, dark winters - you have to learn to laugh at misery, in a way.
If you are pitched into misery, remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
If you see misery, it's your misery. When you see the perfection where the seeming imperfection seems to be, the misery is only an apparency.
If our society continues at its present rate to become less livable as it becomes more affluent, we promise all to end up in sumptuous misery.
The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.
It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.
The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.
Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.
You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.
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.
When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing but misery and filth.
So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
Rightly it is said of utter, utter misery, that it 'cannot be remembered'; itself, being a rememberable thing, is swallowed up in its own chaos.
Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty, misery, and discontent on which it thrives.
In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life.
Life in itself is an empty canvas; it becomes whatsoever you paint on it. You can paint misery, you can paint bliss. This freedom is your glory.
Die! Die to the ego, die to your past, and you will be resurrected. That resurrection will make you go beyond death, beyond time, beyond misery.
As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery.
Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
A lot of guys come up talking about The Waterboy. I get a lot of that. Misery, Delores Claiborne and The Waterboy, those are the main ones I get.
Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.
Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.