What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
Making my last record, Warrior, was a pretty miserable process, and it wore my spirit down. I was fighting like hell to… — Kesha Copy Share Image
I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
Man is more miserable, more restless and unsatisfied than ever before, simply because half his nature--the spiritual--is starving for true food, and… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures, only, in the case of man, it is… — Rosa Bonheur Copy Share Image
I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
“He had never met anyone who played music for a living who wasn’t fucked-up in some sad or depraved way, the same… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
No matter how hard you try to make a person who's miserable all the time happy it'll never work, until they get… — Larry J Cowell Copy Share Image
How miserable a solipsist is! It is rather senseless for him to even assert his belief in solipsism, for, on the one… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Just from my own experience, a lot of the comedians I used to work with were miserable in their actual lives. I… — Eric Bana Copy Share Image
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book!… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The way to find your own North Star is not to think or feel your way forward but to dissolve the thoughts… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard… — Todd Solondz Copy Share Image
You have no idea how much of the inefficiency of mankind comes from thinking about the wrong-doings of others, and of ourselves.… — Emma Curtis Hopkins Copy Share Image
My act now is completely different. I took two years off when I first got with my wife and it was because… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
I view tea drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an en-genderer of effeminancy and laziness, a debaucher… — William Cobbett Copy Share Image
Solitude and company may be allowed to take their turns: the one creates in us the love of mankind, the other that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men in consequence whereof they refer everything to themselves and from every… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Jack! "Where have you been,you miserable little creep?" He raised his eyebrows,a look of mock hurt on his face."This is the thanks… — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
“We were always more or less miserable, and most of our acquaintance were in the same condition. There was a gay fiction… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Unhappiness, I saw then, comes to each of us because we think ourselves at the center of the world, because we have… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
In London I have been by turns poor and rich, hopeful and despondent, successful and down and out, utterly miserable and ecstatically,… — Gertrude Lawrence Copy Share Image
Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Only one thing I expect from all of you: to be yourself, to discover your inner beauty, your purity of consciousness, your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the… — Pope Paul VI Copy Share Image
She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it. The right prayer would have been, Lord… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
“Overall, the shack was too miserable to serve as a storage space for old banana peels, let alone as a home for… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
We’re really lucky to live in a planet that has so much music. We could be living in some bland planet that… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
We are nearly always longing for an easy religion, easy to understand and easy to follow; a religion with no mystery, no… — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
“Why not? I can be miserable if I want to. You don't need to try and make it go away. It shouldn't… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The most miserable man in the world of those meant for Paradise will be dipped once in Paradise. Then he will be… — Muhammad Copy Share Image
If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them… — Elizabeth I Copy Share Image
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