#miser

Friends love misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends. ↗

— Erica Jong

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Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#blues #like #miserable #singers #their

No one is really miserable who has not tried to cheapen life. ↗

— David Starr Jordan

#life #miserable #really #tried #who

My life has run from misery to happiness. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#life #misery #my life #run

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#achieve #dare #fail #greatly #miserably

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#bullets #cannon #composed #corners #debts

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape. ↗

— George Santayana

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The trade unions and the Labour Party... failed miserably. Instead of giving concrete support, and calling upon workers to take industrial action, they did nothing. ↗

— Arthur Scargill

#calling #concrete #did #failed #giving

But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#enjoy #how #make #matter #miserable

I learned early about the misery and dangers of life, and about the afterlife, about the external punishment which awaited the children of sin in Hell. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#afterlife #children #dangers #early #external