“He who is himself crossed in love is able from time to time to master his passion, for he is not the creature but the creator of his own misery; and if a lover is unable to control his passion, he at least knows that he is himself to blame for his sufferings. But he who is loved without reciprocating that love is lost beyond redemption, for it is not in his power to set a limit to that other's passion, to keep it within bounds, and the strongest will is reduced to impotence in the face of another's desire.” IfsKnowsLoveAbleFacesDesireSufferingPassionLostLove IsMastersLoversCreaturesLimitsBlameMiseryBoundsCreatorRedemptionStrongestImpotenceLove Is Lost Author:Stefan Zweig
“It is senseless to blame others or your environment for your miseries. Change begins from the moment you muster the courage to act. When you change, the environment will change. The power to change the world is found nowhere but within our own life.” WorldLifeMomentsFoundChangePowerCourageEnvironmentBlameMiseryChanging The WorldOur EnvironmentPower To ChangeMusterPower To Change The World Author:Daisaku Ikeda
“I'm being explicit about really horrifying experiences in my life, but my hope has always been to be responsible as an artist and to avoid indulging in my misery, or to come off as an exhibitionist. I don't want to make the listener complicit in my vulnerable prose poem of depression, I just want to honor the experience. I'm not the victim here, and I'm not seeking other peoples' sympathy. I don't blame my parents, they did the best they could.” WantArtistParentHonorResponsibleVictimBlameMiserySeekingVulnerableProseListenersBeing ResponsibleExplicitExhibitionist Author:Sufjan Stevens
“You know we have Democratic centrists here to blame for the economic conditions driving this rightwing extremism. So the solution here, you know, is not Hillary Clinton and more of the Clintonism centrist, the centrist Clinton philosophy that is greeding this economic misery.” KnowsPhilosophyEconomicConditionsSolutionsBlameMiseryDemocraticClintonDrivingExtremism Author:Jill Stein
“Why should I blame her that she filled my days With misery, or that she would of late Have taught to ignorant men most violent ways, Or hurled the little streets upon the great, Had they but courage equal to desire? What could have made her peaceful with a mind That nobleness made simple as a fire, With beauty like a tightened bow, a kind That is not natural in an age like this Being high and solitary and most stern? Why, what could she have done, being what she is? Was there another Troy for her to burn?” MenWayShouldMindKindLittlesMadeDoneAgeDesireNaturalSimpleFireStreetsTaughtEqualLateBlameFilledMiseryViolentIgnorantPeacefulBowsSolitaryShould I Author:William Butler Yeats
“Ah how shameless – the way these mortals blame the gods. From us alone they say come all their miseries yes but they themselves with their own reckless ways compound their pains beyond their proper share.” WayPainShareBlameMiseryMortalsRecklessCompoundsShamelessOdysseyOdysseus Book:The odyssey Source: The odyssey
“We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.” SelfPastAccountsBlameLaysMiseryArguingOur Past Book:Love remains Source: Love remains
“Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.” MenGriefGreaterFateDesignBlameMiseryDepravity Book:The Odyssey of Homer Source: The Odyssey of Homer
“I strongly believe that we can create a poverty-free world, if we want to.... In that kind of world, [the] only place you can see poverty is in the museum. When school children will be on a tour of the poverty museum, they will be horrified to see the misery and indignity of human beings. They will blame their forefathers for tolerating this inhuman condition to continue in a massive way.” IfsWorldWayWantBelieveHumansKindChildrenSchoolHuman BeingsPovertyConditionsBlameMiseryMassiveMuseumsHuman ConditionInhumanForefathersFree WorldIndignity Author:Muhammad Yunus
“O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.” WritingMy OwnCriticismLettersPraiseBlameMiseryBreakfastSwear Book:The Flight of the Mind Source: The Flight of the Mind
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal while blaming our misery on the person who started the fire.” PersonsFireHotBlameMiseryCoalHolding OnGrasping Author:Bill Crawford
“We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery.” StatesHomeJoySkyBuildingBlameMiseryAppearanceWeatherIslandsUglinessDwellingTropicalTropical Islands Author:Alain de Botton