#miserable

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#life #phantom #shadow #struggle #life

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#breakfast #dinner #fine #flat #life

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

— Francis Bacon

#happy #life #miserable #moment

If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

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It's fun when the ball is going in the hole and things are going right, but it's a miserable game when things aren't going well. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#fun #game #going #hole #miserable

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#instrument #isolated #melancholy #miserable #such

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy. ↗

— James Boswell

#every #every man #exquisitely #happy #man

I just see too many people retire and say, 'I'm going to take off, travel, spend time with my family' and they are just miserable. They end up dying. People who work and stay active, and like what they are doing, live longer. ↗

— Terry Bradshaw

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I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ↗

— Agatha Christie

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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#alive #been #certainly #grand #grand thing