#mis

A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#lord-byron #misattributed #misattributed-to-poe #woman #devil

I wish I could hate you," he said. His voice was light, his mouth curved in an unconcerned half smile, his eyes sick with misery. "I want to hate you. I try to hate you. It would be so much easier if I did hate you. Sometimes I do hate you and then I see you and I... ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#misery

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #infernal-devices #madness #misery #tessa-gray

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? ↗

— Voltaire

#optimism #satire #satire

وأنت وإن أفردت في دار وحشة فأنا بدار الأنس في وحشة الفرد ↗

— ابن الرومي

#misery #mourning #poetry #sadness #mourning

I am an optimist. Anyone interested in the future has to be otherwise he would simply shoot himself. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#optimism #optimism

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can. ↗

— William Faulkner

#happiness #optimism #suffering #optimism

I'm no optimist", she said as she opened the cabinet door. " I'm just a realist who smiles too much. ↗

— Tiffany Reisz

#optimism

Always something new, always something I didn't expect, and sometimes it isn't horrible. ↗

— Robert Jordan

#optimism

He hesitated, remembering something Finnikin had said to him on their journey. That somehow, even in the worst of times, the tiniest fragments of good survive. It was the grip in which one held those fragments that counted. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#hope #optimism #optimism