#miser

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#against #be happy #death #fight #happy

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#capitalism #equal #inherent #miseries #sharing

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. ↗

— Montgomery Clift

#artist #creative #creative energy #energy #failure

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 didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#everybody #i #just #marriage #married

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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#achieve #dare #fail #greatly #miserably

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#bullets #cannon #composed #corners #debts

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#because #does #kill #love #misery