#miser

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#always #because #daylight #fear #illuminates

Without literature my life would be miserable. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#literature #miserable #my life #without #would

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. ↗

— John Milton

#bear #blind #blindness #miserable

Misery is the company of lawsuits. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#company #lawsuits #misery

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#climb #except #lawful #mankind #miseries

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain. ↗

— Colin Wilson

#average #average man #conformist #cow #disasters

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#himself #his #know #loses #misery

Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment. ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#friends #happiness #husband #inspirational #life

I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you. ↗

— Sonya Hartnett

#miserable #life

That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery. ↗

— Stefanos Livos

#happiness #love #misery #mother #sadness