#miser

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. ↗

— Erica Jong

#especially #fact #friends #in fact #love

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#blues #like #miserable #singers #their

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life. ↗

— David Starr Jordan

#life #miserable #really #tried #who

My life has run from misery to happiness. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#life #misery #my life #run

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#achieve #dare #fail #greatly #miserably

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#bullets #cannon #composed #corners #debts

People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could. ↗

— Ian Rush

#could #enjoying #enjoyment #exactly #football

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#being #beneficent #entered #freed #introduction

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

— Lee Ryan

#go #instead #know #miserable #out

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#anxious #future #mind #miserable