Pastoral Resources

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.

May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.

The histories which we have of the great tragedy give no idea of the general wretchedness, the squalid misery, which entered into every individual life in the region given up to the war. Where the armies camped the destruction was absolute.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

The rare pleasure of being seen for what one is, compensates for the misery of being it.

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm.

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

The supposed great misery of our century is the lack of time.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.