#miserable

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#les-miserables #sin #victor-hugo #dreams

Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime patriotic, democratic, and human faith, which, in our days, should be the very foundation of all generous intelligence. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#les-miserables #politics #victor-hugo #faith

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#breakfast #dinner #fine #flat #life

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#happy #life #miserable #moment

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy. ↗

— Robert Anthony

#being happy #certain #happy #miserable #most

Consider then, O man! whether there can be anything more wretched and poor, more naked and miserable, than man when he dies, if he be not clothed with Christ's righteousness, and enriched in his God. ↗

— Johann Arndt

#christ #clothed #consider #dies #enriched

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

#back #been #casual #conversation #divorced

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood. ↗

— Larry David

#adulthood #because #childhood #had #hard

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#back #bad #bad back #because #career

I don't really find girls to be any more dramatic or delicate than boys; I've known plenty of little boys who've had miserable breakdowns over things... in fact, I was one of them! ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#delicate #dramatic #fact #find #had