#miserable

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

I come from a long line of miserable people. ↗

— Arlene Schindler

#family #funny #funny-but-true #humor #miserable

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

— Francis Bacon

#happy #life #miserable #moment

If my films make one more person miserable, I'll feel I have done my job. ↗

— Woody Allen

#done #feel #films #i #job

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

The people who tried government regulation have lives which are miserable. ↗

— John Stossel

#government regulation #lives #miserable #people #regulation

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

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

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#beauty #into #miserable #recycle #things