#miser

A movie star is someone people look at and go, 'I want to be like that person'. There's the responsibility of desire. It's not something I'm interested in trying. I would fail miserably at it, so why even bother? ↗

— Christian Bale

#desire #even #fail #go #i

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#except #lawful #mankind #miseries #those

I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries. ↗

— Jane Birkin

#because #chuckle #dickens #earthly #i

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#instrument #isolated #melancholy #miserable #such

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#deception #folly #hear #human #i

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

#doing #dying #end #family #going

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#back #bad #bad back #because #career

According to the papers, I'm miserable, alienated, and on the brink of resignation. But that's simply not where I am. ↗

— Vince Cable

#alienated #am #brink #i #i am

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them! ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#delicate #dramatic #fact #find #had

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#hugs #illusion #knows #loneliness #lonely