Pastoral Resources

The final causes, then, of compassion are to prevent and to relieve misery.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice.

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.