#misery

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And then there are always clever people about to promise you that everything will be all right if only you put yourself out a bit... And you get carried away, you suffer so much from the things that exist that you ask for what can't ever exist. Now look at me, I was well away dreaming like a fool and seeing visions of a nice friendly life on good terms with everybody, and off I went, up into the clouds. And when you fall back into the mud it hurts a lot. No! None of it was true, none of those things we thought we could see existed at all. All that was really there was still more misery-- oh yes! as much of that as you like-- and bullets into the bargain!


Émile Zola


#germinal #misery #tancock #dreams

I don't think we can be entirely happy seeing such misery around us.


Eric Cantona


#entirely #happy #i #misery #seeing

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.


Jon Crosby


#alienation #alive #anger #because #causes

By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.


Samuel Daniel


#adversity #distress #examples #fair #greatest

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.


Leon Trotsky


#baseness #before #cannot #cynicism #easy

Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.


Edward Gibbon


#distant #misery #our #relation #sympathy

People in misery is what most important in art.


Zhang Yimou


#important #misery #most #people

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.


George Grosz


#bundle #changed #defeated #disintegrated #except

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.


Vaclav Havel


#broad #daylight #descend #just #misery

To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.


Richard Hooker


#cause #live #man #misery #to live by