#miserable

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy. ↗

— James Boswell

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I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

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Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life. ↗

— Tim Conway

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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

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I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world. ↗

— Noel Gallagher

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Money is time. With money I buy for cheerful use the hours which otherwise would not in any sense be mine; nay, which would make me their miserable bondsman. ↗

— George Gissing

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