Pastoral Resources

The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

There is winning and there is misery.

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

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

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.

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness.

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

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

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!

Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometimes even perplexed by, how much misery I have been spared.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Thank the Gods! My misery exceeds all my hopes!

Misery loves company.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.