Misery And Pain Quotes:

All misery and pain come from attachment.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda, Swami Adiswarananda (2006). “Vivekananda, World Teacher: His Teachings on the Spiritual Unity of Humankind”, p.63, SkyLight Paths Publishing

topic: Pain, Attachment, Misery And Pain

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

- Dante Alighieri

topic: Inspirational, Happiness, Sympathy, Sorrow And Happiness, Sorrow Love

Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional. We cannot avoid pain, but we can avoid joy.

- Tim Hansel

source: Tim Hansel (1995). “Keep on Dancin': Daily Readings to Celebrate Life”, Chariot Family Pub

topic: Pain, Joy, Misery, Joy And Pain, Misery And Pain

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

- Albert Schweitzer

source: Albert Schweitzer (2015). “The Light Within Us”, p.11, Open Road Media

topic: Pain, Lying, Hard Times, Misery And Pain

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

- Thomas Traherne

topic: Happiness, Doe, Misery, Misery And Pain

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

- Alexander Smith

topic: Happiness, Time, Misery, Misery And Pain

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

- Ambrose Bierce

source: Ambrose Bierce (2000). “Tales of Soldiers and Civilians: and Other Stories”, p.26, Penguin

topic: Funny, Happiness, Happy, Misery And Pain, What Is Happiness

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Love, Decision, Misery, Misery And Pain

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

- Frederick Douglass

topic: Men, White, Diversity, Misery And Pain

Look, it's a monster. He's walking alone. Look, he's pulling something out of his pocket. He threw it on the ground. Let's go see what it is. It's a black box. You open it... ok... Look, it's sorrow, misery and pain. It's loneliness and longing. Boy, he'll be sorry he lost these.

- Henry Rollins

topic: Sorry, Pain, Loneliness, Misery And Pain, Walking Alone

There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Pain, Lying, Fate, Upper Hand, Misery And Pain

I'd been so set on an escape that was now impossible, and the only form of freedom left to me was death. It was a terrible kind of freedom—one from misery and pain, yes, but also one from lightness and laughter and life. It was an absence of everything.

- Alexander Gordon Smith

source: Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 1: Lockdown”, p.144, Faber & Faber

topic: Laughter, Pain, Impossible, Misery And Pain

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

source: Aldous Huxley (2015). “Crome Yellow”, p.86, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Laughter, Pain, Emotional, Misery And Pain, Amour