#miser

I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#bring #each #end #firmly #held

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#carry #diminishing #feel #help #himself

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#anxious #future #mind #miserable

I was miserable as a kid. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#kid #miserable

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#miserable #thinks

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#misery #threadbare #time

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#being #bother #cure #happy #leisure

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#being #enough #happy #leisure #miserable

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#blasted #bolt #cease #entered #exhibit

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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