#miserable

These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#jean-valjean #les-miserables #smiling #suffering #love

So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three problems of the century - the degradation of man by the exploitation of his labour, the ruin of women by starvation and the atrophy of childhood by physical and spiritual night are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words and from a still broader point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, there should be a need for books such as this. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#les-miserables #preface #law

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up. ↗

— Shania Twain

#bed #been #compassion #consider #crashed

Life is too short to be miserable. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#life is too short #miserable #short #too

Locations are all tough, all miserable. I never left the sound stage for 18 years at Warners. We never went outside the studio, not even for big scenes. ↗

— Bette Davis

#even #i #left #locations #miserable

The miserable failures of capitalist economies in the Great Depression were root causes of worldwide social and political disasters. ↗

— James Tobin

#causes #depression #disasters #economies #failures

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so. ↗

— Jacopo Sannazaro

#himself #man #miserable #only #thinks

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. ↗

— John Milton

#bear #blind #blindness #miserable

I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it. ↗

— Alicia Sacramone

#attention #bit #bored #came #dance

The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#m-bienvenu #m-welcome #beauty