#miser

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions. ↗

— Nick Cave

#because #bloody #get #i #miserable

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#humble #later #let us #lose #magnitude

Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#disappointment #german #group #hopelessness #i

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#conceive #estimates #false #great #i

I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be. ↗

— Trent Reznor

#been #ever #goal #got #had

Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.' ↗

— Bam Margera

#fun #have fun #i #just #life

Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera. ↗

— Karl Malone

#bryant #company #going #hollywood #i

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. ↗

— William James

#habitual #human #human being #indecision #miserable

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. ↗

— Erica Jong

#especially #fact #friends #in fact #love

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#blues #like #miserable #singers #their