#miser

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#checked #misery #population #power #producing

I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven-headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one... ↗

— Cathryn Kemp

#addiction #addicts #brave #courage #difficult-life

If there's one thing I've discovered, it's that stifling yourself will only lead to more misery. [...] I polluted all other happiness because I was afraid to let myself create and change. You have to have courage. Real courage to explore, to fail, and to pick yourself back up again. ↗

— Siobhan Vivian

#creativity #misery #change

Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery. ↗

— Gates McFadden

#exposed #fast #information #life #makes

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#misery #necessity #need #art

Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#god #les-miserables #spiritual #beauty

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#m-bienvenu #m-welcome #beauty

I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy. ↗

— Holly Black

#happy #life #miserable #sad #life

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#misery #obsession #romance #love

change isn't easy, Micky. Changing the way you live means changing how you think. Changing how you think means changing what you believe in life. That's hard sweetie. When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable ↗

— Dean Koontz

#change