{"quotes":[{"text":"As long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this earth (oranywhere elsethey mightescape to).All you can dois maybe grabten lucky minuteshereor maybe an hourthere.Somethingis working toward youright now, andI mean youand nobody butyou.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["alone","bukowski","death","force","human-beings","humanity","life","lonely","love","misery","nobody","peace","poem","poetry","society","soul","war"],"id":610,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"I know you not quite wellYet I foolishly surrender my mind to you. Slowly and carefully you have cast a spellNow my virgin heart only longs for you. There is no need to push, I am already falling. Once proudly tall, I’m no longer standing. Knowing well that I am doomed to misery,I will roll the dice and take delight in my suffering.","author":"Kamand Kojouri","tags":["beguile","bewitch","break-up","cast","delight","dice","doom","ex","fall","falling","foolish","game-over","heart","in-love","know","lose","love-martyr","love-poem","martyr","martyrdom","masochism","masochist","mind","misery","on-purpose","push","relationship","seduce","seduced","self-imposed","spell","standing","suffer","suffering","surrender","virgin"],"id":1098,"author_id":"Kamand+Kojouri"},{"text":"Misery loves good company, so if you are surrounded with drama, gossip and fools you may want to consider that you are presently at risk of becoming one of them.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["becoming","drama","foolishness","gossiping","love","misery","risk","teaching"],"id":2481,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"Maintaining equanimity in misery is called penance (tapa).","author":"Dada Bhagwan","tags":["equanimity","misery","penance","spiritual","spiritual","tapa"],"id":2869,"author_id":"Dada+Bhagwan"},{"text":"The days passed, the weeks. But everything seemed to have fused, gone into a conglomerated mass. He could not tell one day from another, hardly one place from another. Nothing was distinct or distinguishable. Often he lost himself for an hour at a time, could not remember what he had done.","author":"D.H. Lawrence","tags":["depression","misery","mourning"],"id":5585,"author_id":"D.H.+Lawrence"},{"text":"A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour.","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["humor","misery","moroseness","subconscious"],"id":6434,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"They don’t know I only speak in runaway train stationsand everybody is always a few minutes too late to the platform.No one has ever gotten the chance to get too closebecause it is never romantic to fuck the girl who makes love to her own sadness every single night.","author":"Katelin Wagner","tags":["chance","girl","heart","life","loneliness","love","misery","night","poem","poetry","romantic","sad","sadness","tragedy","train","woman"],"id":8289,"author_id":"Katelin+Wagner"},{"text":"...The pleasure of finally making a clean break into misery after always dangling above it's canyon...","author":"Liz Moore","tags":["misery"],"id":9753,"author_id":"Liz+Moore"},{"text":"We say that the world is made of sea and land, as though they were equal; but we know that there is more sea in the Western than in the Eastern hemisphere. We say that the firmament is full of stars, as though it were equally full; but we know that there are more stars under the Northern than the Southern pole. We say the element of man are misery and happiness, as though he had an equal proportion of both, and the days of man vicissitudinary, as though he had as many good days as ill, and that he lived under a perpetual equinoctial, night and day equal, good and ill fortune in the same measure. But it is far from that; he drinks in misery, and he tastes happiness; he journeys in misery, he does but walk in happiness: and, which is worstn his misery is positive and dogmatical, his happiness is but disputable and problematical: all men call misery misery, but happiness changes the name by the taste of man.","author":"John Donne","tags":["food-for-thought","happiness","misery"],"id":9949,"author_id":"John+Donne"},{"text":"He is wretched indeed, who goes up and down in the world, without a God to take care of him, to be his guide and protector, and to bless him in his affairs [. . .] That unconverted men are without God shows that they are liable to all manner of evil [. . .] liable to the power of the devil, to the power of all manner of temptation [. . .] to be deceived and seduced into erroneous opinions [. . .] to embrace damnable doctrines [. . .] to be given up of God to judicial hardness of heart [. . .] to commit all manner of sin, and even the unpardonable sin itself. They cannot be sure they shall not commit that sin. They are liable to build up a false hope of heaven, and so to go hoping to hell [. . .] to die senseless and stupid, as many have died [. . .] to die in such a case as Saul and Judas did, fearless of hell. They have no security from it. They are liable to all manner of mischief, since they are without God. They cannot tell what shall befall them, nor when they are secure from anything. They are not safe one moment. Ten thousand fatal mischiefs may befall them, that may make them miserable forever. They, who have God for their God, are safe from all such evils. It is not possible that they should befall them. God is their covenant God, and they have his faithful promise to be their refuge.","author":"Jonathan Edwards","tags":["misery","peril","the-unconverted"],"id":10423,"author_id":"Jonathan+Edwards"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":463,"pages":47,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}