I plucke up the goodlie greene herbes of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, chawe them by musing, and laie them up at length in the hie seate of memorie by gathering them together; that I, having tasted the sweetenes, l may the lesse perceave the bitternes of this miserable life.
Although money alone won't make us happy, the lack of money surely will make us miserable.
Life is short, and I'd rather be sitting in the poor house doing what I love doing than making a lot of money and being miserable. Life is very short.
We all struggle. I'm not saying any successful woman's life is without struggle. But it doesn't mean it has to be miserable.
Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable.
Something terrible has happened to the soul of the Republican Party. We've gone from bad economic doctrine. We've even gone beyond selfishness and special interests. At this point we're talking about a state of mind that takes positive glee in inflicting further suffering upon the already miserable.
The only time I am ever miserable is when I do something just for the money.
it is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else
Feminism wasn’t supposed to make us miserable. It was supposed to make us free; to give women the power to shape their fortunes and work for a more just world. Today, women have choices that their grandmothers could not have imagined. The challenge lies in recognizing that having choices carries the responsibility to make them wisely, striving not for perfection or the ephemeral all, but for lives and loves that matter.
But 'tis a sad thing that all one's happiness is only that the world does not know you are miserable.
Had I not spent so much time doing something that made me so miserable, I would have never learned how to appreciate doing what brings me joy.
Christmas was a miserable time for a Jewish child in those days, and I still recall the feeling. ... Decades later, I still feel left out at Christmas, but I sing the carols anyway. You might recognize me if you ever heard me. I'm the one who sings, 'La-la, the la-la is born.
I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.
I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.
I was a pretty happy kid, I had to fake it. I had to get into this miserable character before I wrote poems.
Make movies you love because it's miserable. Every movie I've worked on at one point or another is exhausting, and you feel like you're making a bad movie.
A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time, having a miserable time, even better. You don't want to read a book about someone having a great time in the South of France, eating and drinking and falling in love. What you want to read is a book about a guy going through the jungle, going through the arctic snow, having a terrible time trying to cross the Sahara, and solving problems as they go.
Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love.
People also smile when they are miserable.
I don't like black. You wear black when you're miserable.
Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.
From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.
That's the trouble with you sad-city types: a place has to be miserable and dull as ditchwater before you believe it's real.
I just think Radiohead are f-in' miserable bastards.
The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves.
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