#miser

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody? ↗

— Princess Diana

#better #compromise #happy #how #just

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again. ↗

— Anne Frank

#again #build #confusion #death #foundation

I would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence. ↗

— John Frusciante

#because #been #being #emotion #energies

What I realized was how difficult an hour show is and how miserable you can be if you're not happy doing it. ↗

— Victor Garber

#doing #happy #hour #how #i

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#man #miserable #occupied #thoroughly #very

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#found #miserable #occupied #person #really

The German experience, as you can see, did move me very much. Seeing that terrible destruction and seeing the miserable state of the people, how they had been beaten down by the war through no fault of their own probably. ↗

— James Laughlin

#been #destruction #did #down #experience

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#awfully #being #buy #comfortable #make

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#director #get #good #insecure #job

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously. ↗

— David Mamet

#away #based #days #evenings #family