home.social

#misery — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #misery, aggregated by home.social.

  1. A quotation from Victor Hugo

    Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn.
     
    [Italiens ou français, la misère nous regarde tous. Depuis que l’histoire écrit et que la philosophie médite, la misère est le vêtement du genre humain; le moment serait enfin venu d’arracher cette guenille, et de remplacer, sur les membres nus de l’Homme-Peuple, la loque sinistre du passé par la grande robe pourpre de l’aurore.]

    Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
    Letter (1862-10-18) to M. Daelli [tr. Wraxall (1862)]

    More about this quote: wist.info/hugo-victor/83222/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #victorhugo #lesmiserables #future #humancondition #humanity #misery #progress #reform #socialimprovement #socialreform #socialwelfare #woes

  2. Rob Reiner adapte Stephen King et signe un thriller psychologique traumatisant. Retour sur "Misery", un huis clos glaçant où la passion d'une fan se transforme en cauchemar absolu. Mention spéciale à Kathy Bates. 🔪📖 #Misery #StephenKing #Thriller #CKMZ

    critiksmoviz.fr/2026/03/14/mis

  3. from the moment when the #priests use the pulpit as a means of #political struggle against the #working classes, the #workers must fight against the enemies of their rights and their #liberation. For he who defends the #exploiters and who helps to prolong this present regime of #misery, he is the mortal enemy of the #proletariat, whether he be in a cassock or in the uniform of the #police.

    Rosa Luxemburg, #Socialism and the Churches

    #quote #quotes #anarchocommunism

  4. from the moment when the #priests use the pulpit as a means of #political struggle against the #working classes, the #workers must fight against the enemies of their rights and their #liberation. For he who defends the #exploiters and who helps to prolong this present regime of #misery, he is the mortal enemy of the #proletariat, whether he be in a cassock or in the uniform of the #police.

    Rosa Luxemburg, #Socialism and the Churches

    #quote #quotes #anarchocommunism

  5. A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

    FAUSTUS: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me,
       What good will my soul do thy lord?
    MEPHISTOPHILES: Enlarge his kingdom.
    FAUSTUS: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?
    MEPHISTOPHILES: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
       [Misery loves company.]

    Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
    The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 2, sc. 1 (sc. 5), l. 477ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

    More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christophermarlowe #kitmarlowe #faustus #company #damnation #devil #misery #souls #temptation #unhappiness #hell

  6. A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

    FAUSTUS: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me,
       What good will my soul do thy lord?
    MEPHISTOPHILES: Enlarge his kingdom.
    FAUSTUS: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?
    MEPHISTOPHILES: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
       [Misery loves company.]

    Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
    The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 2, sc. 1 (sc. 5), l. 477ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

    More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christophermarlowe #kitmarlowe #faustus #company #damnation #devil #misery #souls #temptation #unhappiness #hell

  7. A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

    FAUSTUS: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me,
       What good will my soul do thy lord?
    MEPHISTOPHILES: Enlarge his kingdom.
    FAUSTUS: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?
    MEPHISTOPHILES: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
       [Misery loves company.]

    Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
    The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 2, sc. 1 (sc. 5), l. 477ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

    More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christophermarlowe #kitmarlowe #faustus #company #damnation #devil #misery #souls #temptation #unhappiness #hell

  8. A quotation from Christopher Marlowe

    FAUSTUS: Stay, Mephistopheles, and tell me,
       What good will my soul do thy lord?
    MEPHISTOPHILES: Enlarge his kingdom.
    FAUSTUS: Is that the reason he tempts us thus?
    MEPHISTOPHILES: Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.
       [Misery loves company.]

    Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
    The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 2, sc. 1 (sc. 5), l. 477ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)

    More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #christophermarlowe #kitmarlowe #faustus #company #damnation #devil #misery #souls #temptation #unhappiness #hell

  9. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    A prodigal starts with ten thousand pounds, and dies worth nothing; a miser starts with nothing, and does worth ten thousand pounds. It has been asked which has had the best of it? I should presume the prodigal; he has spent a fortune — but the miser has only left one; — he has lived rich, to die poor; the miser has lived poor, to die rich; and if the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it, still deeper in debt to himself.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 131 (1822)

    More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #enjoyment #avarice #debt #extravagant #greed #miser #misery #overindulgence #overspending #poverty #prodigal #profligate #selfdeprivation #skinflint #spendthrift #wastefulness #wastrel #wealth

  10. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    A prodigal starts with ten thousand pounds, and dies worth nothing; a miser starts with nothing, and does worth ten thousand pounds. It has been asked which has had the best of it? I should presume the prodigal; he has spent a fortune — but the miser has only left one; — he has lived rich, to die poor; the miser has lived poor, to die rich; and if the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it, still deeper in debt to himself.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 131 (1822)

    More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #enjoyment #avarice #debt #extravagant #greed #miser #misery #overindulgence #overspending #poverty #prodigal #profligate #selfdeprivation #skinflint #spendthrift #wastefulness #wastrel #wealth

  11. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    A prodigal starts with ten thousand pounds, and dies worth nothing; a miser starts with nothing, and does worth ten thousand pounds. It has been asked which has had the best of it? I should presume the prodigal; he has spent a fortune — but the miser has only left one; — he has lived rich, to die poor; the miser has lived poor, to die rich; and if the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it, still deeper in debt to himself.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 131 (1822)

    More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #enjoyment #avarice #debt #extravagant #greed #miser #misery #overindulgence #overspending #poverty #prodigal #profligate #selfdeprivation #skinflint #spendthrift #wastefulness #wastrel #wealth

  12. A quotation from C. C. Colton

    A prodigal starts with ten thousand pounds, and dies worth nothing; a miser starts with nothing, and does worth ten thousand pounds. It has been asked which has had the best of it? I should presume the prodigal; he has spent a fortune — but the miser has only left one; — he has lived rich, to die poor; the miser has lived poor, to die rich; and if the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it, still deeper in debt to himself.

    Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
    Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 2, § 131 (1822)

    More about this quote: wist.info/colton-charles-caleb…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cccolton #enjoyment #avarice #debt #extravagant #greed #miser #misery #overindulgence #overspending #poverty #prodigal #profligate #selfdeprivation #skinflint #spendthrift #wastefulness #wastrel #wealth

  13. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    Yet it is certain, likewise, that many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Essay (1753-11-27), The Adventurer, No. 111

    More about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/80903…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #comparison #desire #discontent #envy #gratification #jealousy #keepingupwiththejoneses #lack #misery #resentment #unhappiness #want

  14. A quotation from George Bernard Shaw

    The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.

    George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
    Treatise on Parents and Children, “Children’s Happiness” (1914)

    More about this quote: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shaw #georgebernardshaw #activity #boredom #busyness #ennui #happiness #introspection #meme #misery #occupation #preoccupation #purpose #work #worry #meme

  15. A quotation from George Bernard Shaw

    The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it.

    George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and critic
    Treatise on Parents and Children, “Children’s Happiness” (1914)

    More about this quote: wist.info/shaw-george-bernard/…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #shaw #georgebernardshaw #activity #boredom #busyness #ennui #happiness #introspection #meme #misery #occupation #preoccupation #purpose #work #worry #meme

  16. 🤔 Oh, look! #AWS is now #moonlighting as an #unlicensed #gynecologist and oncologist in #Oregon 🌊💀. Apparently, turning water into *misery* is their latest cloud offering—who needs miracles when you've got tech? 🙄
    techoreon.com/oregon-data-cent #Tech #Misery #HackerNews #ngated

  17. 🤔 Oh, look! #AWS is now #moonlighting as an #unlicensed #gynecologist and oncologist in #Oregon 🌊💀. Apparently, turning water into *misery* is their latest cloud offering—who needs miracles when you've got tech? 🙄
    techoreon.com/oregon-data-cent #Tech #Misery #HackerNews #ngated

  18. A quotation from Cicero

    You know the insolence of Antonius; you know his friends, you know his whole household. To be slaves to lustful, wanton, debauched, profligate, drunken gamblers, is the extremity of misery combined with the extremity of infamy.
     
    [Nostis insolentiam Antoni, nostis amicos, nostis totam domum. libidinosis, petulantibus, impuris, impudicis, aleatoribus, ebriis servire, ea summa miseria est summo dedecore coniuncta.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 3, ch. 14 / sec. 35 (2.14/3.35.1) (44-12-20 BC) [tr. Yonge (1903)]

    More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #disgrace #dishonor #insolence #misery #slavery #subjects #indignity #tyranny

  19. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, “Pope” (1781)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/johnson-samuel/26251…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #aggravation #evil #humancondition #irritation #misery #misfortune #repetition #unhappiness #vexation #weardown

  20. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, “Pope” (1781)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/johnson-samuel/26251…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #aggravation #evil #humancondition #irritation #misery #misfortune #repetition #unhappiness #vexation #weardown

  21. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, “Pope” (1781)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/johnson-samuel/26251…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #aggravation #evil #humancondition #irritation #misery #misfortune #repetition #unhappiness #vexation #weardown

  22. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    The misery of man proceeds not from any single crush of overwhelming evil, but from small vexations continually repeated.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, “Pope” (1781)

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/johnson-samuel/26251…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samueljohnson #aggravation #evil #humancondition #irritation #misery #misfortune #repetition #unhappiness #vexation #weardown

  23. A quotation from Cicero

    No person is so foolish that they don’t understand that if we remain asleep at this moment we will have to live through a rule that is not only cruel and arrogant but ignoble and disgraceful too. You know this man’s arrogance, his friends, and his whole household. To serve shameful lusts, bullies, disgusting and irreverent thieves, those drunkards — well, that is the worst suffering married to the greatest dishonor.
     
    [Nemo est tam stultus qui non intellegat, si indormierimus huic tempori, non modo crudelem superbamque dominationem nobis sed ignominiosam etiam et flagitiosam ferendam. Nostis insolentiam Antoni, nostis amicos, nostis totam domum. Libidinosis, petulantibus, impuris, impudicis, aleatoribus, ebriis servire, ea summa miseria est summo dedecore coniuncta.]

    Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
    Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 3, ch. 14 / sec. 34-35 (3.14/3.34-35) (44-12-20 BC) [tr. @sentantiq (2021)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #alertness #arrogance #attention #crisis #danger #despotism #dictatorship #disgrace #dishonor #misery #payattention #politics #regime #tyranny #warning #regime

  24. A quotation from Nicolas Chamfort

    Nature meant there to be illusions for the wise as well as the foolish, so that the wise should not be made too unhappy by their wisdom.
     
    [La Nature a voulu que les illusions fussent pour les sages comme pour les fous, afin que les premiers ne fussent pas trop malheureux par leur propre sagesse.]

    Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
    Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 1, ¶ 76 (1795) [tr. Mathers (1926)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/767…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #comfort #fool #foolish #illusion #misery #reality #truth #wisdom #wise

  25. Blessed Chiquitunga: Misery Meets Mercy

    “How could I not tremble, Jesus, before the immensity of Your mercy toward this miserable one, a thousand times unworthy, chosen by You!”

    Blessed Maria Felicia of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, Chiquitunga

    A cracked-open door.
    Two hinges: humility and wonder.
    Through this door, we catch a glimpse of Blessed Maria Felicia of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament — Chiquitunga — a young Carmelite whose soul was shaped by trust in the night and total surrender to Love.

    🎙️ Listen to this final episode of Season 2: Blessed Chiquitunga: Misery Meets Mercy.

    https://youtu.be/H4yH-rVUHI0

    As we close this season of Carmelite Quotes Podcast, thank you for listening, praying, and walking with us. Stay tuned for Season 3 — coming soon!

    #BlessedMariaFeliciaOfJesusInTheBlessedSacrament #Chiquitunga #darkNight #humility #mercy #misery #Podcast

  26. It is only right that we consider these two points [on mental prayer and vocal prayer] since, because of his humility, this King listens to me and lets me approach Him; and His guards do not throw me out, even though as an uneducated person I don’t know how to speak to Him.

    The angels who assist Him know well the attitude of their King, for He delights more in the unpolished manners of a humble shepherd who He realizes would say more if he knew more than He does in the talk of very wise and learned men, however elegant their discourse, if they don’t walk in humility.

    But just because He is good doesn’t mean that we should be rude. At least, in order to thank Him for the bad odor He must endure in consenting to allow one like myself to come near Him, we should strive to be aware of His purity and of who He is.

    It’s true that upon approaching Him one understands immediately, just as with lords here below; for when they tell us who their father was and about the millions they get in rent and of their title of dignity, there’s no more to know. In fact, here below people in paying honor don’t take into account the persons themselves, however much these persons may deserve the honor, but their wealth.

    O miserable world! Praise God very much, daughters, because you have left something so wretched, where men pay attention not to what they have within themselves but to what their tenant farmers and vassals have; and if these men lack subordinates then no honor is paid them. It’s something amusing to relax over when you all have to take some recreation.

    For this is a good pastime: to notice how blindly those who are in the world spend their time.

    Saint Teresa of Avila

    The Way of Perfection, chap. 22, nos. 4–5

    Teresa of Avila, St. 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K; Rodriguez, O, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

    Featured image: Photographer Father Lawrence Lew, OP captures this image of Christ the King in a beautiful stained glass window by Charles Eamer Kempe in St. Michael’s Church, Cumnor, England. (Some rights reserved)

    https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/06/27/stj-way22n4/

    #ChristTheKing #goodness #humility #mentalPrayer #misery #praise #prayer #StTeresaOfAvila #vocalPrayer

  27. Apparently over 20,000 Palestinians have been killed now. Israelis over 1200. Neither number is good obviously but even if Israel stopped killing people in Gaza right now, that's an overkill of payback. Plus, most of the infrastructure in Gaza is gone, so further deaths will keep happening just from lack of access to goods, water, shelter, and medical supplies. What is Israel's end game? How much misery do they want to inflict?

    #IsraeliAttack #Palestinians #revenge #misery

  28. Apparently over 20,000 Palestinians have been killed now. Israelis over 1200. Neither number is good obviously but even if Israel stopped killing people in Gaza right now, that's an overkill of payback. Plus, most of the infrastructure in Gaza is gone, so further deaths will keep happening just from lack of access to goods, water, shelter, and medical supplies. What is Israel's end game? How much misery do they want to inflict?

    #IsraeliAttack #Palestinians #revenge #misery

  29. Apparently over 20,000 Palestinians have been killed now. Israelis over 1200. Neither number is good obviously but even if Israel stopped killing people in Gaza right now, that's an overkill of payback. Plus, most of the infrastructure in Gaza is gone, so further deaths will keep happening just from lack of access to goods, water, shelter, and medical supplies. What is Israel's end game? How much misery do they want to inflict?

    #IsraeliAttack #Palestinians #revenge #misery

  30. Here's the last of the Sadler's Lectures podcast episodes on Anselm's first main work, the Monologion, finishing up fittingly with discussion of his views on our final destinations

    soundcloud.com/gregorybsadler/
    #Podcast #Philosophy #Anselm #Eternity #Happiness #Misery #Love #Contempt

  31. #Christianity, which is responsible for more #human #misery than any other cause in world #history, and proclaims ideological virtue in claiming #persecution, isn't resting on a whole lot of #credibility when it comes to #discrimination and #goodFaith. So, excuse me if I'm not sad and concerned about alleged "#antiChristian" discrimination.

    gbnews.com/news/christianity-n

  32. #Christianity, which is responsible for more #human #misery than any other cause in world #history, and proclaims ideological virtue in claiming #persecution, isn't resting on a whole lot of #credibility when it comes to #discrimination and #goodFaith. So, excuse me if I'm not sad and concerned about alleged "#antiChristian" discrimination.

    gbnews.com/news/christianity-n