#miserable

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable. ↗

— Amy Tan

#book #books #go #hope #i

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings! ↗

— John Foxe

#average #beings #burned #during #each

But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

#guy #happy #i #married #me

Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable. ↗

— Marion Milner

#believe #could #ever #find #had

I cut an inch off of every straw I see, just to make the world suck a little less.
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— Jarod Kintz

#change #chivalrous #hope #miserable #misery

A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#dreaming #flowers #gardens #les-miserables #thinking

And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles. The world I have known is lost in the shadows. Is he from heaven or from hell? And does he know, that granting me my life today, this man has killed me, even so. - Javert ↗

— Victor Hugo

#les #mis #miserable #musical #life

The music department is going to do a musical next year," he tells me, rolling his eyes like I would. Justine is running toward me, and I can tell by the look on her face that she's found out about the musical, too. I sigh, shaking my head. "I have to give Justine a lesson in holding back," I tell him. "She's just way too enthusiastic". She grabs my arms in excitement. "We're doing Les Mis." I scream hysterically, clutching her as we jump up and down. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#les-miserables #musical #funny

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