“If we cannot meet our everyday surroundings with equanimity and pleasure and grow each day in some useful direction, then... life is on the road toward misfortune, misery and destruction.” IfsLife IsGrowsPleasureDestructionMiseryEverydayEach DayMisfortunesSurroundingsEquanimity Author:Luther Burbank
“All present life is but an interjection, An'Oh!'or 'Ah!'of joy or misery, Or a 'Ha! ha!'or 'Bah!'a yawn or 'Pooh!' Of which perhaps the latter is most true.” Life IsJoyMiseryLatterPresent Life Author:Robert Byron
“The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.” MenYearsHumansMayChildrenMadeLife IsCertainMarriedMassDaughterTradeMiseryHuman LifeRememberedUnhappinessUnfortunateIntervals Book:Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)
“No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.” WorldHas BeensLife IsBornFateGenerationsYouthMiseryOppressionAround The WorldDestinedOblivionBrutalityEarly Death Author:Bob Avakian
“I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.” KnowsMenLongHardFeelingsLife IsRealizingLonelinessHard WorkAmountDrinkGloryMiseryEndureHungerBeastDesperationHeartbreakingDrearyWild Beasts Book:The Setting Sun Source: The Setting Sun