#misery

I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one,” he said. “Life can be difficult for everyone,” she replied. “Misery makes no distinction between prince and pauper. ↗

— Patricia Grasso

#life #misery #beauty

Margarita was never short of money. She could buy whatever she liked. Her husband had plenty of interesting friends. Margarita never had to cook. Margarita knew nothing of the horrors of living in a shared flat. In short... was she happy? Not for a moment. ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#friends #happiness #husband #inspirational #life

That’s what love is like: mother of the greatest bliss and stepmother of the most tragic misery. ↗

— Stefanos Livos

#happiness #love #misery #mother #sadness

I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide. ↗

— Voltaire

#voltaire #misery

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#coastal #deepens #early #get #hands

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#eternal #let us #misery #moment #together

Misery loves company. ↗

— John Ray

#loves #misery #misery loves company

I would say to my colleague that the misery index, inflation and unemployment, when added together is the lowest it has been in the last series of Presidents, even going back to Jimmy Carter. So I think the Bush administration is doing a good job. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#administration #back #been #bush #bush administration

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#extreme #hopes #misery

Misery is the company of lawsuits. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#company #lawsuits #misery