#miserable

Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable. ↗

— Marion Milner

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The artist must be like that Marine. He has to know how to be miserable. He has to love being miserable. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#artist #miserable #misery #write #writer

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

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No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

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The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably. ↗

— James Laughlin

#been #destruction #did #down #experience

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#awfully #being #buy #comfortable #make

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#director #get #good #insecure #job

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously. ↗

— David Mamet

#away #based #days #evenings #family

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them. ↗

— Don Marquis

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