#miseries

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ↗

— Colin Wilson

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There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#afloat #bound #current #flood #fortune

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #forgetfulness #miseries #pleasure #present

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. ↗

— Noah Webster

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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

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#alone #being #derive #men #miseries

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

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

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