M Quotes
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“Misdirection only comes from someone that has lost their way.”
“Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.”
“Miserabilism leads to a mixture of indifference towards the past and hatred of it. This hatred is visible in the architecture and urban planning of Europe since the war. [...] This mania for destruction, often carried out in lesser degrees by the strategic placement of a terrible building that the eye cannot escape (the Tour Montparnasse in Paris is a particularly fine example of the genre), is a symptom of an impotent rage that Europe has been left behind, is not longer in the vanguard of anything. It is also a kind of magical thinking: that by adopting the externals of modernity somehow modernity itself will be achieved and mastered.”
Source: The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism
“Miserable are the persons who do not have something beyond themselves to search for.”
“Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?”
“Miserable!” exclaimed Rappaccini. “What mean you, foolish girl? Dost thou deem it misery to be endowed with marvellous gifts against which no power nor strength could avail an enemy—misery, to be able to quell the mightiest with a breath—misery, to be as terrible as thou art beautiful? Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the condition of a weak woman, exposed to all evil and capable of none?”
Source: Rappaccini's Daughter
“Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.”
“Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day.”
“Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.”
Source: The Works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu: Including Her Correspondence, Poems, and Essays, Form Her Genuine Papers
“Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.”
“Miserable men commiserate not themselves; bowelless unto others, and merciless unto their own bowels.”
Source: Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals
“Miserable mortals who like leaves at one moment flame with life eating the produce of the land and at another moment weakly perish.”
“Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.”
“Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.”
“Miserable people love to make other people miserable. I don't hate them, I just feel sorry for them.”
“MISERABLE
Release the toxic and infectious-
Spreaders of misery,
Souls destroying souls-
And poisonous liars.
Awaken from the hallucinations-
And take back your heart.
Reclaim your self-esteem-
And leave the toxic be.”
Source: Uninhibited From Lust To Love
“Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.”
“Miserere is about redemption, and the triumph of our best impulses over our worst. It's also about swords, monsters, chases, ghosts, magic, [and] court intrigues. It's also really, really good.”
“MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Miseries of a birth.”
Source: Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
“Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to money, to things, you feel a certain security: at least there is something to ding to; you don't feel empty. Maybe you are full of rubbish; but at least something is there, you are not empty.”
“Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.”
Source: In Pursuit of Laughter ...
“Miserly loves companies.”
Source: We have our difference in common 2.
“Misers are neither relations, nor friends, nor citizens, nor Christians, nor perhaps even human beings.”
“Misers are very kind people: they amass wealth for those who wish their death.”
“Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.”
“Misers makes money their lord, but the spenders makes it their slaves and servants”
“Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.”
“Misers take care of property as if it belonged to them, but derive no more benefit from it than if it belonged to others.”
“Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.”
Source: Essays on Men and Manners
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
“Misery, after all, loves company.”
Source: A Castle of Sand
“Misery alternates with euphoria.”
Source: The Saving Graces: A Novel
“Misery and a nameless nostalgic distress possessed him.”
Source: Crome Yellow
“Misery and death is what happens when incompetents run state utilities.”
“Misery and ecstasy, united by love...”
Source: The Queen of the Damned
“Misery and ignorance are always the cause of great evils. Misery is easily excited to anger, and ignorance soon yields to perfidious counsels.”
“Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)
“Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such
a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.”
Source: The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
“Misery and poverty of a nation does not depend on how fertile their land is but the fertility of their thoughts.”
“Misery and shame are nearly allied.”
Source: The Rambler
“Misery builds character, happiness makes cheesecake.”
Source: Morality Absolute
“Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took away all the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.”
“Misery comes the moment you become clinging, attached. The moment you put conditions on life.”
“Misery comes to miser; joy comes to wiser. (A Very Hot Cup of Tea, Empathy)
Juvenile invites, youth tries, adult applies, and the old man dies. (A Straw Man, Empathy)
In everyone, there lives a superhero. (The Medicine Man, Empathy)
Faith is the strongest word in any dictionary. (The Wisdom Beard, Empathy)
I’ve entered into your feelings; it’s your turn now. (Empathy)”
“Misery develops in the insidious seams created by imprecision and faulty human thinking. The cure for unhappiness is finding joy by embracing human nature.”
Source: Dead Toad Scrolls
“Misery does not exist in reality but only in mere imagination.”
“Misery doesn't only love company. It demands it. For this reason, don't walk away from negative people. RUN!”
“Misery don't call ahead. That's why you have to stay awake - otherwise it just walks on in your door.”