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“Misery is complexity. Happiness is simplicity.”

Happiness Spiritual Spirituality Sadness Despair Misery Simplicity Complexity Unhappiness Desperation Anguish Physicist Gloom

Author:Lester Levenson

“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.”

Men Feels Heart Passion Study Sadness Despair Weakness Depth Arise Emptiness Nothingness Dependence Gloom Weariness Diversion Vexation Insufferable Insufficiency

Book:Pascal's Pensees

Source: Pascal's Pensees

“Gloom and sadness are poison to us, and the origin of hysterics. You are right in thinking that this disease is in the imagination; you have defined it perfectly; it is vexation which causes it to spring up, and fear that supports it.”

Thinking Causes Imagination Support Sadness Disease Spring Defined Poison Gloom Vexation

Author:Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

“But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.”

Night Loses Memories Sea Sadness Return Sad Ambition Flow Delight Hungry Bitter Heels Gloom Withered

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose

“Not only do we cheat ourselves and those around us if we are only glum or always wary when it comes time to respond to divine stirrings. No, we are then also being simply unfaithful to the surrounding reality. The one who purges gloom has given occasions and reasons, in the midst of life's sadness, to be joyful.”

Ifs Reason Reality Given Sadness Divine Occasions Midst Joyful Cheat Gloom Stirring Unfaithful Brooding

Author:Martin E. Marty

“Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.”

Matter Sadness Gloom Nothing Matters

Author:Robert Plant