Pastoral Resources

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

I am talking about misery and all of its implications.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

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.

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end.

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

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

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job.

If misery loves company, misery has company enough.

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

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

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.