#miserable

I suppose that's what happens when you make other people's lives miserable: life gets miserable back at you. ↗

— Sonya Hartnett

#miserable #life

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself. ↗

— Dan Marino

#because #doing #getting #getting married #girl

The best thing ever is when some guy in his 50s taps me on the shoulder and says, 'I just want to let you know I hate my job, I hate my wife, and I come home and I watch reruns of your show and it's the only half hour of the day when I laugh and I forget how miserable life is.' ↗

— Danny Masterson

#come #day #ever #forget #guy

I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way. ↗

— Viggo Mortensen

#build #certain #dead-end #dead-end street #defend

I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable. ↗

— Ben Okri

#friends #happy #homeless #i #lived

The trouble with many men is that they have got just enough religion to make them miserable. If there is not joy in religion, you have got a leak in your religion. ↗

— Billy Sunday

#got #joy #just #leak #make

At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#because #bottom #bravery #courage #cowardice

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. ↗

— Rene Magritte

#always #because #daylight #fear #illuminates

Without literature my life would be miserable. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#literature #miserable #my life #without #would

The scaffold is the accomplice of the executioner; it devours, it eats flesh, it drinks blood; the scaffold is a sort of monster fabricated by the judge and the carpenter, a spectre which seems to live with a horrible vitality composed of all the death which it has inflicted. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#les-miserables #death