#miser

Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#daily #dreams #even #existence #humanity

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable. ↗

— Theodore Parker

#body #brother #creep #death #estate

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#just #know #meant #misery #show

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#alone #being #derive #men #miseries

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#against #be happy #death #fight #happy

One does not kill oneself for love of a woman, but because love - any love - reveals us in our nakedness, our misery, our vulnerability, our nothingness. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#because #does #kill #love #misery

To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too far and ridding us of his presence altogether. ↗

— James Payn

#benevolent #denying #far #hear #himself

Misery loves company. There's a lot to that. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#lot #loves #misery #misery loves company

The key to sitcom success is miserable people. If you see a happy couple, it's just gone, like when Sam and Diane got together on Cheers. ↗

— Matthew Perry

#couple #diane #gone #got #happy

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery. ↗

— Francis Picabia

#each #maybe #men #misery #only