Human Misery Quotes
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Human Misery Quotes & Sayings
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Dialogue is about freeing human beings from the beliefs and attitudes that make human beings miserable.
— Oli Anderson
...the ravenous monsters men called reporters; sub-human vermin who feed off misery and created it wherever they went.
— Christopher G. Nuttall
The history of empires is the history of human misery.
— Edward Gibbon
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.
— Aldous Huxley
When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?
— Eleanor Roosevelt
There's no democratic state that's not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.
— Gilles Deleuze
Misery, after all, loves company.
— Bella Forrest
Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.
— Dean Koontz
Acting is about communicating what it is like to be human: the pain, the laughs, the misery, the joy. I suppose I am searching to have it all.
— Rosamund Pike
I believe that this neglected, wounded, inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.
— John Bradshaw
As mercy is God's goodness confronting human misery and guilt, so grace is his goodness directed toward human debt and demerit.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.
— Francis Collins
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
— Hannah More
The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.
— Blaise Pascal
Politicians need human misery ... Government's a disease masquerading as its own cure.
— L. Neil Smith
The need for gain, and advantage over others, is one of the chief driving forces behind all human misery.
— Bryant McGill
The greater part of human misery is caused by indolence.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
I am a very unhappy human being and you, dearest, simply had to be summoned to create an equilibrium for all this misery.
— Franz Kafka
Yoga makes you free. It makes you happy. It gets you out of the traps that create human misery. It makes you vibrate faster.
— Frederick Lenz
Wherever you find human misery, you find lawyers, either causing it or making a profit from it.
— Peter F. Hamilton
No human being really has any misery. It is your own mistake if you complain of the misery.
— Dada Bhagwan
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
— Victor Hugo
Employment, which Galen calls 'Nature's Physician,' is so essential to human happiness that indolence is justly considered as the mother of misery.
— Robert A. Burton
In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.
— Frank Herbert
Your tears proves that you are an emotional human being; love, joy, sadness and misery touches you deeply.
— Debasish Mridha
I regard morality and ideology as the chief cause of human misery.
— Robert Anton Wilson
All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.
— Aristotle.
The extreme affliction which overtakes human beings does not create human misery, it merely reveals it.
— Simone Weil
We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.
— Charlie Chaplin
I have empathy; I am humane. I understand human misery.
— Marion Marechal-Le Pen
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
— Alexander Smith
It's like the human race has been programmed for misery.
— Tom Perrotta
The principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.
— Georgia Harkness
Tradition can not justify such misery. Surely people can enjoy themselves at a non-animal circus with exciting human acts instead?
— Claire McClennan
You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery.
— Norman Borlaug
He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul.
— Joyce Carol Oates
The human heart is certainly an abyss of misery and sin, but God lies in its depths.
— Jacques Philippe
If there is technological advance without social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery.
— Michael Harrington
Capitalism is the greatest system ever created for alleviating general human misery, and yet it breeds ingratitude.
— Jonah Goldberg
It is a consolation of human life that the sick forget what it is like to feel well, or the miserable to be happy.
— Cyril Connolly
"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
— Dallas Willard
Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.
— Heinrich Heine
Religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.
— Tom Robbins