#miser

And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if only you put yourself out a bit... And you get carried away, you suffer so much from the things that exist that you ask for what can't ever exist. Now look at me, I was well away dreaming like a fool and seeing visions of a nice friendly life on good terms with everybody, and off I went, up into the clouds. And when you fall back into the mud it hurts a lot. No! None of it was true, none of those things we thought we could see existed at all. All that was really there was still more misery-- oh yes! as much of that as you like-- and bullets into the bargain! ↗

— Émile Zola

#germinal #misery #tancock #dreams

Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#been #cares #enjoyment #gains #his

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up. ↗

— Shania Twain

#bed #been #compassion #consider #crashed

In the past, we spoke of poverty, misery only in the south. Now there is a lot of misery, a lot of bad that creates victims in the north as well. This has become manifest: the global system was not made to serve the good of all, but to serve multinational companies. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#become #companies #creates #global #good

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#agreeable #another #arising #contemplating #misery

Maybe awful things is how God speaks to us, Vernon thought, trudging up the lightless tunnel. Maybe folks don’t trust in good things no more. Maybe awful things is all God’s got to remind us he’s alive. Maybe war is God come to life in men. Vernon pushed on toward the light of day. He stepped out onto the ledge and into the heat, and it felt like leaving a theater after the matinee had shown a sad film, the glare of sunshine after the darkness far too real to suffer. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

#bleak #christian-behavior #loss-of-faith #misery #no-redemption

Life is too short to be miserable. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#life is too short #miserable #short #too

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#entire #extremely #love #might #miserable

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Lord Byron

#about #am #course #happiness #i

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything. ↗

— Albert Camus

#between #correct #everything #half-way #history