#miseries

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#daily #dreams #even #existence #humanity

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#bullets #cannon #composed #corners #debts

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it? ↗

— Dan Simmons

#belief #brutish #francis-rawdon-moira-crozier #hidden-mysteries #hobbe-s-leviathan

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#been #evils #extensively #faith #had

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#capitalism #equal #inherent #miseries #sharing

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#conceive #estimates #false #great #i

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another? ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#another #enter #follies #friendship #into

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#feel #increased #lost #miseries #now

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#even #love #miseries #people #show

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#except #lawful #mankind #miseries #those