#misery

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#gathered #honey #human #human soul #misery

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. ↗

— Boethius

#been #fortune #happy #misery #sort

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#deception #folly #hear #human #i

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. ↗

— Euripides

#blows #human #misery #must #somewhere

Rather than turning away from the staggering scale and depth of misery caused by war, we must strive to develop our capacity to empathize and feel the sufferings of others. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#capacity #caused #depth #develop #empathize

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. ↗

— William Cobbett

#lives #mind #misery

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. ↗

— William Cobbett

#leap #misery #much #produced #reach

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#always #choice #choosing #companion #considered

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. ↗

— Graham Greene

#another #any #bearing #condemned #courage

Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery? ↗

— Mary Balogh

#gray-book #life #misery #white #experience