If man were immortal he could be perfectly sure of seeing the day when everything in which he had trusted should betray his trust, and, in short, of coming eventually to hopeless misery. He would break down, at last, as every good fortune, as every dynasty, as every civilization does. In place of this we have death.
Misery makes sport to mock itself.
This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
True celebration should come from your life, in your life. And true celebration cannot be according to the calendar, that on the first of November you will celebrate. Strange, the whole year you are miserable and on the first of November suddenly you come out of misery, dancing. Either, the misery is false, or the first of November is false; both cannot be true. And once the first of November has gone, you are back in your dark hole, everybody in his misery, everybody in his anxiety.
The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.
Teasing is very often a sign of inner misery.
Love is a popular romantic notion that leads to nothing but its own brand of misery.
The slippers of the mortal Earth, now touched the chest of the Moon. Oh, it is shameful that the misery of hunger is still continuing as it was in the past.
Goose pimples rose all over me, my hair stood on end, my eyes filled with tears of love and gratitude for this greatest of all conquerors of human misery and shame, and my breath came in little gasps. If I had not known that the Leader would have scorned such adulation, I might have fallen to my knees in unashamed worship, but instead I drew myself to attention, raised my arm in the eternal salute of the ancient Roman Legions and repeated the holy words, "Heil Hitler!"
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then. . . life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.
religion is to misogyny as disease is to misery - not the sole cause, but a significant contributor
Were cricket and football abolished, it would bring upon the masses nothing but misery, depression, sloth, indiscipline and disorder.
Love Songs Now: Fewer broken hearts, more sexual misery.
The only conversion involved in Vipassana is from misery to happiness, from bondage to liberation.
Just think: you cannot find a single misery for which you are not responsible. It may be jealousy, it may be anger, it may be greed - but something in you must be the reason that is creating the misery.
All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the blue-nosed misery.
For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.
Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.
Liberals like to achieve fairness by spreading the misery. Conservatives seek to expand opportunity.
