Joseph Addison Quotes

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Evil was predictable, always painfully expected.

I knew I was in trouble, but I thought I was in hell.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery.

The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.

You would not easily guess All the modes of distress Which torture the tenants of earth; And the various evils, Which like so many devils, Attend the poor souls from their birth.

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture.

Troubles forereckoned are doubly suffered.

No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.

Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.

The evils of mortals are manifold; nowhere is trouble of the same wing seen.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

While we yearn for peace, we live in a world burdened with hunger, pain, anguish, loneliness, sickness, and sorrow.

There are just way too many people suffering out there.

There is nothing the government has not done to me. There isn't any pain I haven't known.