#miser

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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Maybe awful things is how God speaks to us, Vernon thought, trudging up the lightless tunnel. Maybe folks don’t trust in good things no more. Maybe awful things is all God’s got to remind us he’s alive. Maybe war is God come to life in men. Vernon pushed on toward the light of day. He stepped out onto the ledge and into the heat, and it felt like leaving a theater after the matinee had shown a sad film, the glare of sunshine after the darkness far too real to suffer. ↗

— Alan Heathcock

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Life is too short to be miserable. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

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People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable. ↗

— Joseph Butler

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

— Nicolas Chamfort

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

— Nicolas Chamfort

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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

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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

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

— Voltaire

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

— Frederick Douglass

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