#miser

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#enough #good #life #living #miserable

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#get #london #miserable #positive #quite

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. ↗

— John Calvin

#avoid #god #great #him #mighty

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#any #ever #human #human activity #importance

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#first #government #honorable #misery #office

But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#guy #happy #i #married #me

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss. ↗

— George Mason

#baby #been #blameless #bliss #called

I was miserable as a kid. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#kid #miserable

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

#breathing #escapist #everything #garden #homegrown