#misery

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I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.


Katja Millay


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I would cling to unhappiness because it was a known, familiar state. When I was happier, it was because I knew I was on my way back to misery. I've never been convinced that happiness is the object of the game. I'm wary of happiness.


Hugh Laurie


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I once spoke to someone who had survived the genocide in Rwanda, and she said to me that there was now nobody left on the face of the earth, either friend or relative, who knew who she was. No one who remembered her girlhood and her early mischief and family lore; no sibling or boon companion who could tease her about that first romance; no lover or pal with whom to reminisce. All her birthdays, exam results, illnesses, friendships, kinships—gone. She went on living, but with a tabula rasa as her diary and calendar and notebook. I think of this every time I hear of the callow ambition to 'make a new start' or to be 'born again': Do those who talk this way truly wish for the slate to be wiped? Genocide means not just mass killing, to the level of extermination, but mass obliteration to the verge of extinction. You wish to have one more reflection on what it is to have been made the object of a 'clean' sweep? Try Vladimir Nabokov's microcosmic miniature story 'Signs and Symbols,' which is about angst and misery in general but also succeeds in placing it in what might be termed a starkly individual perspective. The album of the distraught family contains a faded study of Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths—until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about.


Christopher Hitchens


#anonymity #born-again #clean-slate #extinction #family

It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own immature, insecure, self pitying self is its own revenge. Their existence is their karma.


Colleen Truscott Fry


#dysfunctional #heartbreak #immaturity #karma #misery

People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.


Mikhail Bakunin


#church #few #forget #free #go

Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.


Christian Bale


#certainly #dark #go #i #intentionally

It's been a misery for me, living with Christine Keeler.


Christine Keeler


#christine #living #me #misery

Misery is a communicable disease.


Martha Graham


#disease #misery

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.


Charles Darwin


#great #institutions #laws #misery #nature

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.


Boethius


#been #fortune #happy #misery #sort