#misery

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. ↗

— Boethius

#been #fortune #happy #misery #sort

Now I believe I can hear the philosophers protesting that it can only be misery to live in folly, illusion, deception and ignorance, but it isn't -it's human. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#deception #folly #hear #human #i

Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. ↗

— Euripides

#blows #human #misery #must #somewhere

There's so much light in Broughty Ferry. I think the humour in Glasgow is darker, because it's much more gloomy, there's a perpetual misery there. ↗

— Brian Cox

#darker #ferry #glasgow #gloomy #humour

Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives. ↗

— William Cobbett

#lives #mind #misery

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world. ↗

— William Cobbett

#leap #misery #much #produced #reach

Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow. ↗

— Karl Amadeus Hartmann

#sorrow #stream #unending

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#depend #disagreeable #him #his #man

Misery is almost always the result of thinking. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#always #misery #result #thinking

Shall each man," cried he, "find a wife for his bosom, and each beast have his mate, and I be alone? I had feelings of affection, and they were requited by detestation and scorn. Man! You may hate, but beware! Your hours will pass in dread and misery, and soon the bolt will fall which must ravish from you your happiness forever. Are you to be happy while I grovel in the intensity of my wretchedness? You can blast my other passions, but revenge remains—revenge, henceforth dearer than light or food! I may die, but first you, my tyrant and tormentor, shall curse the sun that gazes on your misery. Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful. I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom. Man, you shall repent of the injuries you inflict. ↗

— Mary Shelley

#love #misery #passion #revenge #food