#miser

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. ↗

— Voltaire

#madness #miserable #optimism #well

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. ↗

— Noah Webster

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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#hate #miserable #perfectly #time #you

People in misery is what most important in art. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#important #misery #most #people

I drove around in a Volkswagen Rabbit I shared with one of my roommates, and it didn't have a roof. It doesn't rain much in L.A., but when it did, it was utterly miserable. ↗

— Jon Hamm

#did #drove #i #miserable #much

Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous. ↗

— Elizabeth Hardwick

#also #been #made #making #miserable

I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something. ↗

— Max Hastings

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Never was a miser a brave soul. ↗

— George Herbert

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