#miser

I was miserable as a kid. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#kid #miserable

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

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#maintains #miserable #person #poor #wealth

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#i #i wish #miser #must #occupying

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#much #want

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#fortune #happy #merit #miserable #only

So far I haven't really been prominent enough to get critical attention focused on me. So, of course, I fully expect bad reviews, but I will be wracked with misery as a result. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#bad #been #course #critical #enough

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#either #feel #feel good #good #i