#miserable

When I was in the first grade I was afraid of the teacher and had a miserable time in the reading circle, a difficulty that was overcome by the loving patience of my second grade teacher. Even though I could read, I refused to do so. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#circle #could #difficulty #even #first

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#hugs #illusion #knows #loneliness #lonely

If only my folks had beaten me, I could have gotten some material about my miserable childhood. But as it is, I've had a great life. ↗

— Tim Conway

#beaten #childhood #could #folks #gotten

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#miserable #refuge #sex

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#bible #born #converted #forever #miserable

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#anything #architecture #both #course #ecstatic

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

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#either #feel #feel good #good #i

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#god #les-miserables #napoleon #science-fiction #science