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The devil and the damned have punishment without pity, misery without mercy, sorrow without succor, crying without comfort, mischief without measure, torments without end and past imagination. John Trapp – JOHN TRAPP (1601-1699)	added by gracesouthern3 7 months ago
maybe it’s just my imagination but I can smell the stench of a decaying humanity wallowing in the throes of hypocrisy, apathy, misery and I take a DEEP breath before stepping out. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 10 months ago
I wanted him to spend some time incarcerated to see how it feels being imprisoned where no one could release him from his misery. – Tracey Lomax	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When my son asked me why it’s OK to kill someone as a punishment for killing someone, I couldn’t look him in the eye and explain why. i wanted him to spend some time incarcerated to see how it feels being imprisoned where no one could release him from his misery. – Tracey Lomax	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I wish we had died with everyone else so we don’t go through this, we survived only to live this misery and agony. – Jomana Karadsheh/CNN	Found on CNN 1 year ago
We caused the misery with the first 12 minutes, in a game like this it is not allowed. You can criticize and judge us and you are probably right because those 12 minutes are not allowed. – Jurgen Klopp	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Democratic candidates know that if the midterms are a referendum on Biden’s first two years in office, they’re in for a shellacking on Election Night, especially given the economic misery their policies have created. – Hill Strategies co-founder Colin Reed	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
I can’t believe Jimmy’s gone. Working with him on ‘Misery’ was one of the most profound experiences of my career, when you watch his performance, his terror, it’s as though he’s watching a snake. Brilliant. So many memories flooding back today. Jimmy saying, ‘Let’s get the most hyper guy in Hollywood and make him stay in bed for 15 weeks.’ We were so excited when we got to shoot in the dining room. He was kind. Hilarious. He would have something insightfully funny to say right now. I’m bereft. Sending all my love to the Caan family. – Kathy Bates	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We welcome today's verdict and sentence, now that Ryan Palin is behind bars, [he] can no longer peddle huge amounts of drugs and misery on the streets of Merseyside and beyond. – Merseyside Detective Sergeant Graeme Kehoe	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Russia is deliberately bragging they can destroy with nuclear weapons, not only a certain country but the entire planet, we have to ensure this sacred month of Ramadan is not overshadowed by the misery of people in Ukraine. – Volodymyr Zelenskyy	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Now we are staying here to preserve our and the babies’ lives, we are hiding here from the bombing and this horrible misery. – Lyudmilia Yashchenko	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There's a big hole in people, even the long legged ones, and they eat and eat because they don't want to die; at least they want to revel in their misery for one more day, and they look back at me with suspicious eyes and then they go back to their dead life and dream of peace and love and compassion, and I continue to stare at them in a blurred stupor. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
It was really touch and go, some of you who've wanted to put me out of my misery darn near got what you wished for ! So sorry to disappoint you ! – Neil Cavuto	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The liberals who sit at Martha’s Vineyard sipping cocktails on their back porch think they're doing nice things for these migrants, they’re not, they're causing them all kinds of misery and horror, and why would you put people through something like that? – Ohio Senate	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I've been in the trenches many times before in the summer, this is the first time it was in the winter. Visually, because the trenches and the landscape are covered in snow, it reminds me of World War I trenches. Cold misery. – Timothy Fadek	Found on CNN 2 years ago
You meet, every day, someone facing the misery caused by tobacco, the most horrible ways people die. Being short of breath, caused by tobacco. – Ayesha Verrall	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
If the enemy can separate Kimye, there's going to be millions of families that feel like that separation is OK, but when God brings Kimye together, there's going to be millions of families that are going to be influenced to see that they can overcome the work of the separation, of trauma the devil has used to capitalize to keep people in misery while people step over homeless people to go to the Gucci store. – Pierre Suu/Getty Images -RRB- West	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
My thoughts are with the many missing and injured, victims of criminal smugglers who exploit their distress and misery. – Jean Castex	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, The creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. – Sir Winston Churchill	added by Normando 2 years ago
Unfortunately, it has become a time capsule because what we know is Communism has failed anywhere it has been tried in the history of humanity … the only equality it delivers is equal misery for all of its residents. – Xavier Louis Suarez	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Not having any clarity around potential resolution to the error committed by the testing regime continues to cause mental agony, i hope that the Australian government will act expeditiously to end our misery. – Sunny Joura	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Even tho’ he struggled with life he kept elbowing his way through the crowd of envy, even tho’ it felt like the weight of the world was on his shoulders he would never allow his head to hang to the ground; in a world lost in misery. -MillYentei – Deshawn Yeldell	added by MillYentei.L.D.Y 3 years ago
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery. – Georges Bernanos	added by Normando 3 years ago
The purpose of living is not to live in misery or hatred. Solitude cannot fill anybody's emptiness if the object of living is not known. – Clifford Villalon	added by anonymous 3 years ago

The devil and the damned have punishment without pity, misery without mercy, sorrow without succor, crying without comfort, mischief without measure, torments without end and past imagination. John Trapp

– JOHN TRAPP (1601-1699)

added by gracesouthern3
7 months ago

maybe it’s just my imagination but I can smell the stench of a decaying humanity wallowing in the throes of hypocrisy, apathy, misery and I take a DEEP breath before stepping out.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
10 months ago

I wanted him to spend some time incarcerated to see how it feels being imprisoned where no one could release him from his misery.

– Tracey Lomax

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When my son asked me why it’s OK to kill someone as a punishment for killing someone, I couldn’t look him in the eye and explain why. i wanted him to spend some time incarcerated to see how it feels being imprisoned where no one could release him from his misery.

– Tracey Lomax

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I wish we had died with everyone else so we don’t go through this, we survived only to live this misery and agony.

– Jomana Karadsheh/CNN

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We caused the misery with the first 12 minutes, in a game like this it is not allowed. You can criticize and judge us and you are probably right because those 12 minutes are not allowed.

– Jurgen Klopp

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Democratic candidates know that if the midterms are a referendum on Biden’s first two years in office, they’re in for a shellacking on Election Night, especially given the economic misery their policies have created.

– Hill Strategies co-founder Colin Reed

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I can’t believe Jimmy’s gone. Working with him on ‘Misery’ was one of the most profound experiences of my career, when you watch his performance, his terror, it’s as though he’s watching a snake. Brilliant. So many memories flooding back today. Jimmy saying, ‘Let’s get the most hyper guy in Hollywood and make him stay in bed for 15 weeks.’ We were so excited when we got to shoot in the dining room. He was kind. Hilarious. He would have something insightfully funny to say right now. I’m bereft. Sending all my love to the Caan family.

– Kathy Bates

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We welcome today's verdict and sentence, now that Ryan Palin is behind bars, [he] can no longer peddle huge amounts of drugs and misery on the streets of Merseyside and beyond.

– Merseyside Detective Sergeant Graeme Kehoe

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Russia is deliberately bragging they can destroy with nuclear weapons, not only a certain country but the entire planet, we have to ensure this sacred month of Ramadan is not overshadowed by the misery of people in Ukraine.

– Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Now we are staying here to preserve our and the babies’ lives, we are hiding here from the bombing and this horrible misery.

– Lyudmilia Yashchenko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There's a big hole in people, even the long legged ones, and they eat and eat because they don't want to die; at least they want to revel in their misery for one more day, and they look back at me with suspicious eyes and then they go back to their dead life and dream of peace and love and compassion, and I continue to stare at them in a blurred stupor.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

It was really touch and go, some of you who've wanted to put me out of my misery darn near got what you wished for ! So sorry to disappoint you !

– Neil Cavuto

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The liberals who sit at Martha’s Vineyard sipping cocktails on their back porch think they're doing nice things for these migrants, they’re not, they're causing them all kinds of misery and horror, and why would you put people through something like that?

– Ohio Senate

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I've been in the trenches many times before in the summer, this is the first time it was in the winter. Visually, because the trenches and the landscape are covered in snow, it reminds me of World War I trenches. Cold misery.

– Timothy Fadek

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You meet, every day, someone facing the misery caused by tobacco, the most horrible ways people die. Being short of breath, caused by tobacco.

– Ayesha Verrall

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

If the enemy can separate Kimye, there's going to be millions of families that feel like that separation is OK, but when God brings Kimye together, there's going to be millions of families that are going to be influenced to see that they can overcome the work of the separation, of trauma the devil has used to capitalize to keep people in misery while people step over homeless people to go to the Gucci store.

– Pierre Suu/Getty Images -RRB- West

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

My thoughts are with the many missing and injured, victims of criminal smugglers who exploit their distress and misery.

– Jean Castex

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, The creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

– Sir Winston Churchill

added by Normando
2 years ago

Unfortunately, it has become a time capsule because what we know is Communism has failed anywhere it has been tried in the history of humanity … the only equality it delivers is equal misery for all of its residents.

– Xavier Louis Suarez

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Not having any clarity around potential resolution to the error committed by the testing regime continues to cause mental agony, i hope that the Australian government will act expeditiously to end our misery.

– Sunny Joura

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Even tho’ he struggled with life he kept elbowing his way through the crowd of envy, even tho’ it felt like the weight of the world was on his shoulders he would never allow his head to hang to the ground; in a world lost in misery. -MillYentei

– Deshawn Yeldell

added by MillYentei.L.D.Y
3 years ago

Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it injustice, but of a sly effective order, based entirely on cruel knowledge of the resistance of the weak, their capacity for pain, humiliation and misery.

– Georges Bernanos

added by Normando
3 years ago

The purpose of living is not to live in misery or hatred. Solitude cannot fill anybody's emptiness if the object of living is not known.

– Clifford Villalon

added by anonymous
3 years ago

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