#miser

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? ↗

— Joseph Addison

#cruel #delights #father #make #man

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. ↗

— Woody Allen

#life #loneliness #misery #much #over

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy. ↗

— Mikhail Bakunin

#church #few #forget #free #go

People love coming on television, even if they have to show their miseries. ↗

— Victoria Abril

#even #love #miseries #people #show

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job. ↗

— Woody Allen

#done #feel #films #i #job

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery. ↗

— John Cleveland

#channel #description #disturbance #guide #his

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice. ↗

— William Glasser

#almost #among #anyone #aware #becoming

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#any #ever #human #human activity #importance

But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#guy #happy #i #married #me

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform. ↗

— Matt LeBlanc

#manifold #misery #wretchedness