The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.
Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves.
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space.
Misery motivates, not utopia.
But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.
The world is not fair. If you persist in presuming it is, you will create a lot of unnecessary misery for yourself.
Misery is a match that never goes out.
Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.
There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?
You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution.
He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them.
Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional
Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position.
The economic misery: who passed NAFTA? You know, Bill Clinton signed that with Hillary's [Clinton] support.
I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!
Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and trifling. If you trace the necessary concatenation of human events a very little way back, you may perhaps discover that a person's very going in or out of a door has been the means of coloring with misery or happiness the remaining current of his life.
In our hearts there is a ruthless dictator, ready to contemplate the misery of a thousand strangers if it will ensure the happiness of the few we love.
Most of our miseries we bring on ourselves. And they're the sum of our own stupidity.
My birth sign is Scorpio and they eat themselves up and burn themselves out. I swing between happiness and misery. I am part prude and part nonconformist. I say what I think and I don't pretend and I am prepared to accept the consequences of my actions.
While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.