#miser

Francis Crozier believes in nothing. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. It has no plan, no point, no hidden mysteries that make up for the oh-so-obvious miseries and banalities. Nothing he has learned in the past six months has persuaded him otherwise. Has it? ↗

— Dan Simmons

#belief #brutish #francis-rawdon-moira-crozier #hidden-mysteries #hobbe-s-leviathan

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery. ↗

— Spike Milligan

#buy #does #form #happiness #misery

Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserable. I want to steal their market share. I want them to fear me and I want everyone on my team thinking we're going to win. ↗

— Kevin O'Leary

#competitors #everyone #fear #go #going

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. ↗

— Ben Okri

#friends #happy #homeless #i #lived

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#avenge #consciences #grow #human #misery

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand. ↗

— John Ruskin

#best #doing #doubt #hand #hesitation

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#cats #life #means #miseries #music

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#afloat #bound #current #flood #fortune

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#got #joy #just #leak #make

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#extreme #hopes #misery