#miser

One morning, about four o'clock, I was driving my car just about as fast as I could. I thought, Why am I out this time of night? I was miserable, and it came to me: I'm falling in love with somebody I have no right to fall in love with. ↗

— June Carter Cash

#am #came #car #clock #could

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions. ↗

— Nick Cave

#because #bloody #get #i #miserable

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery. ↗

— John Cleveland

#channel #description #disturbance #guide #his

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#combine #dope #fiend #miser #those

I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable. ↗

— Viola Davis

#doing #i #i love #love #miserable

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#humble #later #let us #lose #magnitude

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings! ↗

— John Foxe

#average #beings #burned #during #each

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice. ↗

— William Glasser

#almost #among #anyone #aware #becoming

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#faith #great #human #misery #too

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. ↗