#miser

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#calcutta #chronicle-of-the-past #darkness #generations #ghosts

In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish. ↗

— Natsuo Kirino

#regret #submission #suicide #forgiveness

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. ↗

— Pietro Aretino

#better #friends #friendship #granted #greater

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer. ↗

— Louis Bonaparte

#apprehended #miserable #need #nothing

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#combine #dope #fiend #miser #those

We know there's no use in getting miserable, so we go out on the town instead! ↗

— Lee Ryan

#go #instead #know #miserable #out

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