#miser

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. ↗

— Montgomery Clift

#artist #creative #creative energy #energy #failure

We can never flee the misery that is within us. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#misery #never #us #within

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

#alms #disgusting #earth #even #gives

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

We know there's no use in getting miserable, so we go out on the town instead! ↗

— Lee Ryan

#go #instead #know #miserable #out

But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#enjoy #how #make #matter #miserable

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#miserable #thinks

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#fortune #happy #merit #miserable #only

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