#miser

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? ↗

— Joseph Addison

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Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. ↗

— Woody Allen

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I've been divorced and I had to get back out there be single again and do some of that in the genuinely miserable state where you really do wonder what the hell is going on. And you feel like trying to have casual conversation with someone you don't know on the surface of the moon or something. ↗

— Hank Azaria

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The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

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Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s. ↗

— William Blake

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To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. ↗

— William Blake

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Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

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