#miser

Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ↗

The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. ↗

#contemplative #less #life #live #miserable

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger. ↗

— Jon Crosby

#alienation #alive #anger #because #causes

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown. ↗

— Samuel Daniel

#adversity #distress #examples #fair #greatest

This president failed so miserably in diplomacy that we are now forced to war. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#failed #forced #miserably #now #president

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes. ↗

— Bette Davis

#even #i #left #locations #miserable

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. ↗

— Voltaire

#misery #spirit #who

He gave to misery (all he had) a tear. ↗

— Thomas Gray

#had #misery #tear

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

#cannot #happiness #man #misery #purchased

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress. ↗