#miser

I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#misery #misery

It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own immature, insecure, self pitying self is its own revenge. Their existence is their karma. ↗

— Colleen Truscott Fry

#dysfunctional #heartbreak #immaturity #karma #misery

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence. ↗

— Aeschylus

#know #many #misery #proper #purifying

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cruel #delights #father #make #man

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#even #love #miseries #people #show

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job. ↗

— Woody Allen

#done #feel #films #i #job

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ↗

— Robert Anthony

#being happy #certain #happy #miserable #most

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#does #ears #eyes #feet #hands

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#except #lawful #mankind #miseries #those

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation. ↗

— Larry David

#empty #ensure #forty #forty years #generation