#miser

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Lord Byron

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I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us. ↗

— Eric Cantona

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Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery. ↗

— Frederick Douglass

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The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress. ↗

— Ricky Williams

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Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable. ↗

— Voltaire

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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

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You don't even have to hate to have a perfectly miserable time. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

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When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do. ↗

— Brian Austin Green

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