#miser

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy. ↗

— Montgomery Clift

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Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

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I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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We can never flee the misery that is within us. ↗

— Arthur Golden

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There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them. ↗

— Maxim Gorky

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I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children. ↗

— Salma Hayek

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I thought my goal in life was to be in a successful band, and I had got that, but I was as miserable as I had ever been, and I couldn't understand why that would be. ↗

— Trent Reznor

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Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.' ↗

— Bam Margera

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Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera. ↗

— Karl Malone

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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. ↗

— William James

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