#miser

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#calcutta #chronicle-of-the-past #darkness #generations #ghosts

In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish. ↗

— Natsuo Kirino

#regret #submission #suicide #forgiveness

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure. ↗

— Benazir Bhutto

#feel #increased #lost #miseries #now

There is winning and there is misery. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#winning

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#everybody #i #just #marriage #married

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life. ↗

— Chris Isaak

#i #i think #life #lot #lucky

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

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