The audience knows the truth, the world is simple. It's miserable, solid all the way through. But if you could fool them,… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
[The sceptic] must acknowledge, if he will acknowledge any thing, that all human life must perish, were his principles to prevail.All discourse,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
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When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
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This miserable way is taken by the sorry souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise. They now commingle with… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
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All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands. Passion swells by gratification; and the impossibility of… — Henry Home, Lord Kames Copy Share Image
I learned early on to stay away from gossip magazines and reviews. That stuff just makes you unhappy, and I know actors… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
We guided our children. We supported them. We were there for them. But once you start going through your list of schools… — Craig Biggio Copy Share Image
The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
I dislike the thought that some animal has been made miserable to feed me. If I am going to eat meat, I… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Nobody ever wins by the cavalry coming to rescue you. It isn't a question of you're happy if you get married, or… — Maeve Binchy Copy Share Image
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Wouldn’t that be an incredibly stupid thing to do? To say ‘I never want to smoke again’, then spend the rest of… — Allen Carr Copy Share Image
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Our society is so much about fidelity being this thing that's sacred, and people are miserable. They're suicidal. It brings more depression… — Julie Delpy Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is our very nature; not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The student-loan crisis has an underappreciated emotional valence too: The debt makes people miserable. In one survey, more than half of borrowers… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
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Sociologists in the 1960s, reaching for an explanation of why cities were burning, often spoke of the problem of 'rising expectations.' It… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
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You have a choice in life. Would you rather be lonely or miserable? I would rather be lonely. A lot of people… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
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Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in… — William James Copy Share Image
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Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
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