#miser

What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#enough #good #life #living #miserable

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not. ↗

— Publilius Syrus

#much #want

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#fortune #happy #merit #miserable #only

Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable. ↗

— Tacitus

#affluence #amid #great #happy #many

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable. ↗

— Amy Tan

#book #books #go #hope #i

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#god #les-miserables #napoleon #science-fiction #science

And when I came in with tears in my eyes, you always knew whether I needed you to hold me or just let me be. I don't know how you knew, but you did, and you made it easier for me. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#compassion #understanding #understanding

You can share in my joy, but I don’t want to share my misery. No, I want to give away my misery. Go ahead, take it all.
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— Jarod Kintz

#humor #joy #miserable #misery #selfish

A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its own, hidden away, and emerges only to taunt and deride and increase the misery of a miserable hour. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#misery #moroseness #subconscious #humor

Le suprême bonheur de la vie, c'est la conviction qu'on est aimé; aimé pour soi-même, disons mieux, aimé malgré soi-même. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#love #love