#miser

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#anxious #future #mind #miserable

I was miserable as a kid. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

#kid #miserable

A man's as miserable as he thinks he is. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#miserable #thinks

Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#misery #threadbare #time

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#being #bother #cure #happy #leisure

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#being #enough #happy #leisure #miserable

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#maintains #miserable #person #poor #wealth

Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#i #i wish #miser #must #occupying

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#much #want

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery. ↗

— Allen Toussaint

#breathing #escapist #everything #garden #homegrown