#miser

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions. ↗

— Nick Cave

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My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery. ↗

— John Cleveland

#channel #description #disturbance #guide #his

To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. ↗

— Robertson Davies

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I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable ... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable. ↗

— Viola Davis

#doing #i #i love #love #miserable

Each of the seventeen tribunals during a long period burned annually, on an average, ten miserable beings! ↗

— John Foxe

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It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice. ↗

— William Glasser

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Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#faith #great #human #misery #too

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#any #ever #human #human activity #importance

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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But I married a guy who treated me very badly, but I was happy. I was miserable, so I was happy. ↗

— Lynn Johnston

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