Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Those who do not complain are never pitied.

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

you dont know what you got till its gone

We seldom learn the true want of what we have till it is discovered that we can have no more.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.

The three types of misery are the misery of suffering, the misery of change, and pervasive misery.

For now indeed is the race of iron; and men never cease from labour and sorrow by day and from perishing by night.

War, poverty, corruption, hunger, misery, human suffering will not change in a monetary system. That is, there will be very little significant change. It’s going to take the redesign of our culture and values.

We find ourselves in that situation where we want to believe, we want to think we're the exception, we want to think we can change someone or tame a lion or make a bad guy good or something like that but 9 times out of 10 we end up looking back going, "Oh, shame on me, should've seen that one coming!"

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.

Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.