(272 quotes found)
“Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,”
Joseph Addison
“The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery”
Frederick Douglass
“Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
“Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.”
Albert Schweitzer
“Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.”
Theodore Dreiser
“The scavenger of misery is pity.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.”
Tim Hansel
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows”
William Shakespeare
“Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery”
Matthew Arnold
“Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea”
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
