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I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more. – C.S. Lewis	added by unochickie 1 year ago
There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the floud leads on to fortune ommitted, all the voyage of their lives are bound in shallows and in miseries – Julius Caesar	added by ValidVibes 3 years ago
The only purpose of such blood-spattered acts of violence is to add to the tragedies and miseries of the people. – Mehbooba Mufti	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Odisha has seen calamities like cyclones and floods 77 times over the last 100 years. The fishing community, particularly those living on the coast, bear the burnt and are always the worst affected, their miseries multiply due to poor shelter, illiteracy, poverty and, above all, a lack of access to information. – Bishnupada Sethi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Odisha has seen calamities like cyclones and floods 77 times over the last 100 years. The fishing community, particularly those living on the coast, bear the burned and are always the worst affected, their miseries multiply due to poor shelter, illiteracy, poverty and, above all, a lack of access to information. – Bishnupada Sethi	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I do let people know how great their sins and miseries are, i don't do that by standing in a pulpit and telling them they're sinners. ...The way I do it is ask questions. Are you happy? Do you have problems, what are they? So then I come across as somebody who cares about them. – Bobby Schuller	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
They (Russians) speak about the misery the situation in Syria while they are a main part of the miseries that affects the Syrian people. – Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each. – Allen Ginsberg	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name. – Jean Paul	added by anonymous 10 years ago
You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words. You have repeated and shifting pains, incurable pains, pains beyond imagining, pains which are neither of the body nor of the soul, but which partake of both. And I share your suffering, and I ask you: who dares to ration our relief? We are not going to kill ourselves just yet. In the meantime, leave us the hell alone. – Antonin Artaud	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events? – Tryon Edwards	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Every man knows his own but not others? defects and miseries; and ?tis the nature of all men still to reflect upon themselves their own misfortunes, not to examine or consider other men?s, not to confer themselves with others; to recount their own miseries but not their good gifts, fortunes, benefits which they have, to ruminate on their adversity, but not once to think on their prosperity, not what they have but what they want. – Burton	added by anonymous 12 years ago
While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities, while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives. – Goldsmith	added by anonymous 12 years ago
There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. – William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Joseph Conrad	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. – Albert Schweitzer	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. – William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3	added by anonymous 13 years ago
There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living. – Toni Cade Bambara	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone. – Blaise Pascal	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present. – Fairfield Osborne	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – William Congreve	added by anonymous 14 years ago
At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. – Aldous Huxley	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. – Winston Churchill	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

– C.S. Lewis

added by unochickie
1 year ago

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the floud leads on to fortune ommitted, all the voyage of their lives are bound in shallows and in miseries

– Julius Caesar

added by ValidVibes
3 years ago

The only purpose of such blood-spattered acts of violence is to add to the tragedies and miseries of the people.

– Mehbooba Mufti

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Odisha has seen calamities like cyclones and floods 77 times over the last 100 years. The fishing community, particularly those living on the coast, bear the burnt and are always the worst affected, their miseries multiply due to poor shelter, illiteracy, poverty and, above all, a lack of access to information.

– Bishnupada Sethi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Odisha has seen calamities like cyclones and floods 77 times over the last 100 years. The fishing community, particularly those living on the coast, bear the burned and are always the worst affected, their miseries multiply due to poor shelter, illiteracy, poverty and, above all, a lack of access to information.

– Bishnupada Sethi

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I do let people know how great their sins and miseries are, i don't do that by standing in a pulpit and telling them they're sinners. ...The way I do it is ask questions. Are you happy? Do you have problems, what are they? So then I come across as somebody who cares about them.

– Bobby Schuller

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

They (Russians) speak about the misery the situation in Syria while they are a main part of the miseries that affects the Syrian people.

– Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each.

– Allen Ginsberg

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Idleness is many gathered miseries in one name.

– Jean Paul

added by anonymous
10 years ago

You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words. You have repeated and shifting pains, incurable pains, pains beyond imagining, pains which are neither of the body nor of the soul, but which partake of both. And I share your suffering, and I ask you: who dares to ration our relief? We are not going to kill ourselves just yet. In the meantime, leave us the hell alone.

– Antonin Artaud

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Anxiety is the poison of human life; the parent of many sins and of more miseries. In a world where everything is doubtful, and where we may be disappointed, and be blessed in disappointment, why this restless stir and commotion of mind? Can it alter the cause, or unravel the mystery of human events?

– Tryon Edwards

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Every man knows his own but not others? defects and miseries; and ?tis the nature of all men still to reflect upon themselves their own misfortunes, not to examine or consider other men?s, not to confer themselves with others; to recount their own miseries but not their good gifts, fortunes, benefits which they have, to ruminate on their adversity, but not once to think on their prosperity, not what they have but what they want.

– Burton

added by anonymous
12 years ago

While the slightest inconveniences of the great are magnified into calamities, while tragedy mouths out their sufferings in all the strains of eloquence, the miseries of the poor are entirely disregarded; and yet some of the lower ranks of people undergo more real hardships in one day than those of a more exalted station suffer in their whole lives.

– Goldsmith

added by anonymous
12 years ago

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

– William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

added by anonymous
13 years ago

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

– Joseph Conrad

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

– Albert Schweitzer

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

– William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 4 scene 3

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.

– William Shakespeare