#misery

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery. ↗

— Graham Greene

#another #any #bearing #condemned #courage

Black is the absence of all color. White is the presence of all colors. I suppose life must be one or the other. On the whole, though, I think I would prefer color to its absence. But then black does add depth and texture to color. Perhaps certain shades of gray are necessary to a complete palette. Even unrelieved black. Ah, a deep philosophical question. Is black necessary to life, even a happy life? Could we ever be happy if we did not at least occasionally experience misery? ↗

— Mary Balogh

#gray-book #life #misery #white #experience

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#awkward #convince #desperate #having #hype

Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#always #comes #complain #enables #everything

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. ↗

— Martha Washington

#depends #dispositions #greater #happiness #misery

I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that. ↗

— Fay Wray

#based #became #believed #doubt #go

I never realized that life could be as difficult for a beautiful woman as it is for a plain one,” he said. “Life can be difficult for everyone,” she replied. “Misery makes no distinction between prince and pauper. ↗

— Patricia Grasso

#life #misery #beauty

I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide. ↗

— Voltaire

#voltaire #misery

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#eternal #let us #misery #moment #together

Misery loves company. ↗

— John Ray

#loves #misery #misery loves company