#miser

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

— Charles Spurgeon

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Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#much #want

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable. ↗

— Amy Tan

#book #books #go #hope #i

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

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

— Jurgen Habermas

#images #misery #reminiscent #thirty #war

Companions, in misery and worse, that is what we all are, and to try to change this substantially avails us nothing. ↗

— Franz Liszt

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Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#day #every #every day #eyes #go

Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#krapp #life #misery #play #life

Moisture falls from the sky, cleansing the world and sustaining precious life. But it's the gloom - the cold, dark air - that receives notice. We fail to see the miracle of raindrops through our own tears. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#despair #discouragement #ingratitude #misery #rain