#misery

All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart. ↗

— James Baldwin

#love #misery #love

وأنت وإن أفردت في دار وحشة فأنا بدار الأنس في وحشة الفرد ↗

— ابن الرومي

#misery #mourning #poetry #sadness #mourning

Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery. ↗

— Daniel Kahneman

#misery #money #money

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. ↗

— John Calvin

#avoid #god #great #him #mighty

People in misery is what most important in art. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#important #misery #most #people

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated. ↗

— George Grosz

#bundle #changed #defeated #disintegrated #except

If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery. ↗

— Michael Harrington

#almost #automatically #human #increase #misery

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#broad #daylight #descend #just #misery

Misery is a match that never goes out. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#match #misery #never #out

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

#disposition #experience #happiness #misery #experience