#miserable

Listening to Chris Moyles on Radio 1 is the most miserable thing any human being can do, but attending awards ceremonies isn't far behind. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#attending #awards #behind #being #ceremonies

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#maintains #miserable #person #poor #wealth

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable. ↗

— Tacitus

#affluence #amid #great #happy #many

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#inspirational #les-miserables #wisdom #inspirational

…to cause constellations of victories to flash forth at each instant from the zenith of the centuries, to make the French Empire a pendant to the Roman Empire, to be the great nation and to give birth to the grand army, to conquer the world twice, by conquest and by dazzling, that is sublime; and what greater thing is there?’ ‘To be free’, said Combeferre. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#hugo #les-miserables #love

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer. ↗

— Louis Bonaparte

#apprehended #miserable #need #nothing

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#ask #bullets #either #friends #fun

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#get #london #miserable #positive #quite

Miserable is a good thing, though. If you start the day miserable, nobody else can screw up your day. ↗

— Jake Roberts

#day #else #good #good thing #miserable

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