#miser

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#i #kiss #may #might #miserable

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me. ↗

— Stanley Kubrick

#five #harm #here #irreparable #me

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#creature #error #greatest #miserable #miserable creature

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

#depends #dispositions #greater #happiness #misery

My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding. ↗

— Wil Wheaton

#compassion #experience #her #less #made

I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one,” he said. “Life can be difficult for everyone,” she replied. “Misery makes no distinction between prince and pauper. ↗

— Patricia Grasso

#life #misery #beauty

As for us, we who do not believe what these women believe, but live like them by faith, never could look without a sort of tender and religious awe, a kind of pity full of envy, at those devoted beings, trembling yet confident-those humble yet august souls, who date to live on the brink of the great mystery, waiting between the world closed to them and heaven not yet opened; turned toward the daylight not yet seen, with only the happiness of thinking that they know where it is; their aspirations directed toward the abyss and the unknown, their gaze fixes on the motionless obscurity, kneeling, dismayed, stupefied, shuddering, and half carried of sometimes by the deep breath of Eternity. ↗

— Victor Huge

#les-miserables #dating

When that bastard calls back, you tell him he’s won this round. I’ll marry him. But I don’t take well to being blackmailed, and tell him I intend to spend the rest of my life making him miserable, got that? ↗

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#life #marriage #misery #life

If you're always strict with yourself, life gets miserable. And we're supposed to enjoy life. ↗

— Mia Maestro

#enjoy #enjoy life #gets #life #miserable

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. ↗

— Karl Marx

#gone #mad #merely #miser #rational