#miser

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. ↗

— Adam Smith

#far #flourishing #greater #happy #members

I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction? ↗

— Arthur Smith

#creating #fiction #hours #how #hundreds

Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#attending #awards #behind #being #ceremonies

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

— Charles Spurgeon

#maintains #miserable #person #poor #wealth

Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate. ↗

— Ralph Steadman

#corrosive #devising #evil #exact #hate

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. ↗

— Allen Toussaint

#breathing #escapist #everything #garden #homegrown

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#images #misery #reminiscent #thirty #war

In my experience lust only ever leads to misery. All that suspicion and jealousy and anguish it unleashes. I don't want those things in my life. ↗

— Chrissie Hynde

#ever #experience #i #jealousy #leads

All that hatred down there," he said, "all that hatred and misery and love. It's a wonder it doesn't blow the avenue apart. ↗

— James Baldwin

#love #misery #love

You can share in my joy, but I don’t want to share my misery. No, I want to give away my misery. Go ahead, take it all.
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— Jarod Kintz

#humor #joy #miserable #misery #selfish