#miser

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

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery. ↗

— Albert Camus

#encounter #happy #history #misery #periods

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#alienation #alive #anger #because #causes

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#failed #forced #miserably #now #president

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable. ↗

— Scott Weiland

#i #i write #miserable #songs #thing

In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school. ↗

— Patrick White

#countryside #english #english school #explore #four

If I was doing something for the money, I'd be quite miserable. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#i #miserable #money #quite #something

Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerilla opposition. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#differently #guerilla #miserable #opposition #succeed

People in misery is what most important in art. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#important #misery #most #people

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne. ↗