#misery

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#become #companies #creates #global #good

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#agreeable #another #arising #contemplating #misery

Maybe awful things is how God speaks to us, Vernon thought, trudging up the lightless tunnel. Maybe folks don’t trust in good things no more. Maybe awful things is all God’s got to remind us he’s alive. Maybe war is God come to life in men. Vernon pushed on toward the light of day. He stepped out onto the ledge and into the heat, and it felt like leaving a theater after the matinee had shown a sad film, the glare of sunshine after the darkness far too real to suffer. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

#bleak #christian-behavior #loss-of-faith #misery #no-redemption

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Lord Byron

#about #am #course #happiness #i

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. ↗

— Albert Camus

#encounter #happy #history #misery #periods

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#alienation #alive #anger #because #causes

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. ↗

— Samuel Daniel

#adversity #distress #examples #fair #greatest

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. ↗

— Voltaire

#misery #spirit #who

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us. ↗

— Eric Cantona

#entirely #happy #i #misery #seeing

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#had #misery #tear