“Of all the aspects of social misery nothing is so heartbreaking as unemployment …”
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 10
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Raid Jahid Fahmi (1950) Iraqi politician
Interview with Al Jazeera (25 May 2018)
Michael Foot (1913–2010) British politician
Source: Press conference after his election as Labour leader (10 November 1980), quoted in Simon Hoggart and David Leigh, Michael Foot: A Portrait (1981), p. 57 and The Guardian (11 November 1980), p. 1
“That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.”
Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
"Poetry is a Destructive Force"
Parts of a World (1942)
Context: That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.It is a thing to have,
A lion, an ox in his breast,
To feel it breathing there.Corazon, stout dog,
Young ox, bow-legged bear,
He tastes its blood, not spit.He is like a man
In the body of a violent beast.
Its muscles are his own...The lion sleeps in the sun.
Its nose is on its paws.
It can kill a man.
“The social aspect in city building is now completely overlooked.”
Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis (1914–1975) Greek architect
Source: Building Entopia - 1975, Chapter 5, The road to Entopia, p. 60
“The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.”
Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin
Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin
