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There was this funny thing of anything could happen now that we realized everything had.
Raymond Carver
Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
Samuel Beckett
Lucrurile supreme trebuie s? aib? o alt? origine, una proprie lor, - ele nu ar putea lua na?tere din aceast? lume efemer?, în?el?toare, iluzorie ?i mizer?, din aceast? harababur? de am?giri ?i pofte!
Friedrich Nietzsche
When we our betters see bearing our woes,We scarcely think our miseries our foes.
William Shakespeare
The art of our necessities is strangeThat can make vile things precious.
When Annie's treatin, you best be eatin.
Stephen King
wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness
Cassandra Clare
Only one thing mattered: this was not a Horcrux. Dumbledore had weakened himself by drinking that horrible potion for nothing. Harry crumpled the parchment in his hand and his eyes burned with tears as behind him Fang began to howl.
J.K. Rowling
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser
I have learned now that while those who speak about ones miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
C.S. Lewis
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
Victor Hugo
(Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths come enforced idleness, sexual boredom, and/or impotence. At the highest pitch, the death of a friend or even the fear of the death of a child.
Christopher Hitchens
Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
George Orwell
Misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows
But all these were things he could not want, because they were things he could not have, and wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness.
Pride is seldom delicate, it will please itself with very mean advantages; and envy feels not its own happiness, but when it may be compared with the misery of others
Samuel Johnson
You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have no history.
Albert Camus
Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom.
Voltaire
For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.
Bobby Flay
I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.
