(272 quotes found)
“But what right had I to these highest joys, when all around me was nothing but misery and struggle for a moldy bit of bread; when whatsoever I should spend to enable me to live in that world of higher emotions must needs be taken from the very mouths of those who grew the wheat and had not bread enough for their children?”
Peter Kropotkin
“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
G. K. Chesterton
“No one ever kills himself for the love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness.”
Cesare Pavese
“You have the power to tell them 'don't bring a drug that causes death and misery back on the market.”
Joe Escobedo
“The Katrina disaster happened to almost everybody in this newsroom. We're dealing with our own misery as well as trying to tell this story.”
Jim Butler
“There is so much mud in this world of mankind that you can't help wonder how there still are rheumatisms...”
Mariana Fulger
“A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.”
Thomas Carlyle
“Oh, my God! It's like a travesty of justice. He is basically profiting off the misery of working people. That's what it comes down to.”
Bhairavi Desai
“One face to the world, another at home makes for misery”
Amy Vanderbilt
“Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play.”
Bram Stoker
