#misery

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#first #government #honorable #misery #office

There is winning and there is misery. ↗

— Bill Parcells

#winning

Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate. ↗

— Addison Mizner

#does #loves #misery #misery loves company #reciprocate

To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings. ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#art #deep #meanings #misery #one thing

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

Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom. ↗

— Voltaire

#life #meaning #misery #life

A misery is not to be measured from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#nature

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. ↗

— Jeremy Bentham

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I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own. ↗

— Katja Millay

#misery