#miser

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. ↗

— Russell Baker

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Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. ↗

— Jane Austen

#guilt #misery #other #pens

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#breakfast #dinner #fine #flat #life

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#happy #life #miserable #moment

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ↗

— Robert Anthony

#being happy #certain #happy #miserable #most

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#christ #clothed #consider #dies #enriched

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

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It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

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May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

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