“Anyone who has read Yeats's wonderful Autobiography will remember his Sligo shabby, shadowed, half country and half sea, full of confused romance, superstition, poverty, eccentricity, unrecognized anachronism, passion and ignorance and the little boy's misery. Yeats was treated well but was bitterly unhappy; he prayed that he would die, and used often to say to himself: "When you are grown up, never talk as grown-up people do of the happiness of childhood.” PeopleWellsLittlesCountryRememberRomanceUsedDiesPassionHalfBoysPovertyWonderfulSeaChildhoodIgnoranceMiseryUnhappyTreatedConfusedSuperstitionsAutobiographyLittle BoysEccentricityShabbyYeatsAnachronism Author:Randall Jarrell
“Istanbul is certainly in the process of transforming itself into an attractive cultural, tourist and financial center. But there are also millions of sad stories in this giant sea of immigration, poverty, misery and contradictions. So much anger, frustration and fury.” StoriesProcessPovertyMillionsSeaMiseryFinancialImmigrationAttractiveGiantsContradictionFrustrationFuryTransformingTouristsIstanbulSad StoryAnger Frustration Author:Orhan Pamuk
“Nothing less than the fate of the planet is at stake... No place on the planet can remain an island of affluence in a sea of misery.” FateSeaPlanetsMiseryIslandsStakesAffluence Author:Maurice Strong
“A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.” IfsStillsLightHappinessMorningDarknessSeaDutyWingsMiseryObligationPursueDeities Book:Works: with a Biographical Memoir Source: Works: with a Biographical Memoir
“The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.” AmericaChanceViolenceSeaCenturyParticularOvercomingMiseryLuxuryFormerIslandsLatinSurvivedInterventionLatin AmericaColonyDependencySubjugation Author:Noam Chomsky
“There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.” MenLifeLife IsOpportunityLosesTakenSeaGreatnessMiseryFortuneBoundsAffairCurrentsTidesInitiativeFloodVentureVoyagesJuliusFloodingLife OpportunitySea LifeOne Tree Hill VoiceoverSailors And The SeaTree HillLost OpportunityCurrent AffairsOne Tree Hill OpeningShort One Tree HillOne Tree Hill LifeOne Tree Hill LoveOne Tree Hill MemorableStormy SeasOne Tree Hill DeathOne Tree Hill InspirationalSea Voyage Author:William Shakespeare
“If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad, threat'ning the welkin with its big-swoll'n face? And wilt though have a reason for this coil? I am the sea. Hark how her sighs doth blow. She is the weeping welkin, I the earth.” IfsReasonBigsEarthFacesSeaWindLimitsMadThreatMiseryBlowRageWoeSighWeeping Book:The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works Source: The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works