#miser

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#faults #miseries #source #summary

I, like most of my friends, couldn't believe I bought a mountain called Misery Mountain, because it was so appropriate. ↗

— Caleb Carr

#because #believe #bought #called #friends

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#dividing #doubling #grief #happiness #improves

Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#miserable #only #partners #their #tis

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. ↗

— Charlie Chaplin

#beings #each #happiness #help #human

Ignorance is the primary source of all misery and vice. ↗

— Victor Cousin

#misery #primary #primary source #source #vice

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#begin #ceased #clear #condemned #either

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#end #hopeless #i #lives #miserable

My feeling about work is it's much more about the experience of doing it than the end product. Sometimes things that are really great and make lots of money are miserable to make, and vice versa. ↗

— Alan Cumming

#doing #end #end product #experience #feeling

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#aside #cannot #exhaust #experiences #inheritance