#miser

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. ↗

— Sophocles

#even #forgetfulness #miseries #pleasure #present

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#free #make #miserable #set #truth

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#because #bottom #bravery #courage #cowardice

If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience. ↗

— Brian Moore

#company #demands #loves #misery #misery loves company

Globalization creates economic policies where the transnationals lord over us, and the result is misery and unemployment. ↗

— Evo Morales

#economic #economic policies #globalization #lord #misery

It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#health #like #lose #miser #spendthrift

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

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

She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world: "And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you." She essayed to smile again and expired. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#eponine #les-miserables #love #marius #victor-hugo

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death. ↗

— Anne Frank

#build #confusion #consisting #death #everything