#miserable

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

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#either #feel #feel good #good #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

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s. ↗

— Bob Barker

#enjoy #good #good health #health #i

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer. ↗

— Louis Bonaparte

#apprehended #miserable #need #nothing

I still sweat bullets if I go on The Tonight Show, but I tell myself, You can either have fun tonight or you can be shy and miserable. You ask my friends or anyone I work with now - nobody would say I was shy. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#ask #bullets #either #friends #fun

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times. ↗

— Sienna Miller

#get #london #miserable #positive #quite

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#entire #extremely #love #might #miserable

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine. ↗

— William Wyler

#five #hollywood #life #miserable #morning