#miser

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

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#blasted #bolt #cease #entered #exhibit

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#allowed #could #extract #feelings #food

A miser grows rich by seeming poor; an extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich. ↗

— William Shenstone

#grows #man #miser #poor #rich

You don't necessarily have to be in misery to be talented. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#necessarily #talented #you

Artie travels all the time. The rehearsals were just miserable. Artie and I fought all the time. He didn't want to do the show with my band; he just wanted me on acoustic guitar. ↗

— Paul Simon

#acoustic guitar #artie #band #fought #guitar

But I think the majority of cows, and even more so chickens and pigs, are leading pretty miserable lives. ↗

— Peter Singer

#cows #even #i #i think #leading