#miser

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#alive #been #certainly #grand #grand thing

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. ↗

— William Cobbett

#lives #mind #misery

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. ↗

— William Cobbett

#leap #misery #much #produced #reach

I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice. ↗

— Ezra Cornell

#always #choice #choosing #companion #considered

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#miserable #refuge #sex

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us. ↗

— Kinky Friedman

#gay #gay marriage #i #i believe #marriage

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#bible #born #converted #forever #miserable

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow. ↗

— Karl Amadeus Hartmann

#sorrow #stream #unending

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#depend #disagreeable #him #his #man

We weren't put here to be miserable. We were put here to do the best we can, and we should take our energy and improve our state of being. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

#best #energy #here #improve #miserable