Pastoral Resources

Misery's fine - as long as you know you can get out of it when you want to.

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

About the only difference between the poor and the rich, is this, the poor suffer misery, while the rich have to enjoy it.

Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

The shock caused by the September 11 events has also lead to a thorough reflection on the existing disparity between rich and poor countries, on the misery of populations of the South.

The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.