#misery

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time. ↗

— John Fowles

#great #lack #misery #our #supposed

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy. ↗

— Martha Gellhorn

#boy #children #entire #eyes #feel

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#deal #life #misery #others #overwhelmed

I find the earth to be a place of misery in which I am surrounded by the conformity that kills society. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#conformity #earth #find #i #i am

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property. ↗

— James Madison

#aspect #assumes #classes #doubt #favor

Misery, mutilation, destruction, terror, starvation and death characterize the process of war and form a principal part of the product. ↗

— Louis Mumford

#death #destruction #form #misery #mutilation

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#afterlife #children #dangers #early #external

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life. ↗

— Salvatore Quasimodo

#contains #detachment #dreams #finds #him

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery. ↗

— Quintilian

#form #idea #misery #prosperous #right

August, the summer's last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#august #hollow #last #messenger #misery