#misery

It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery. ↗

— Jonathan Mayhew

#cruel #folly #man #misery #nations

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years. ↗

— Paul Merton

#endured #give #happiest #i #indication

It's easy for people in an air-conditioned room to continue with the policies of destruction of Mother Earth. We need instead to put ourselves in the shoes of families in Bolivia and worldwide that lack water and food and suffer misery and hunger. ↗

— Evo Morales

#continue #destruction #earth #easy #families

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

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#just #know #meant #misery #show

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#because #does #kill #love #misery

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#lot #loves #misery #misery loves company

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#each #maybe #men #misery #only

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#affairs #alone #casual #detests #enough