Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Emil M. CioranTags: melancholy syllogism aphorism misery
I stumbled out into the courtyard to try to flee my misery, but of course we can never flee the misery that is within us.
Arthur GoldenNo one can usurp the heights...
But those to whom the miseries of the world
Are misery, and will not let them rest.
She would be one of those who kneel to their own shadows till feet grow on their knees; then go down on their hands till their hands grow into feet; then lay their faces on the ground till they grow into snouts; when at last they are a hideous sort of lizards, each of which believes himself the best, wisest, and loveliest being in the world, yea, the very centre of the universe. And so they run about for ever looking for their own shadows that they may worship them, and miserable because they cannot find them, being themselves too near the ground to have any shadows; and what becomes of them at last, there is but one who knows.
George MacDonaldTags: conceit misery egotism self-centeredness
Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.
Stevie SmithTags: love loneliness worry misery lonely loving trouble miserable unpopularity
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
Andrew Schweitzer...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: fear sleep death sorrow horror suicide earth mother depression misery escape terror
Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Leon TrotskyTags: life cynicism weakness misery
Tags: misery annie-wilkes paul-sheldon
Né avec une âme habituelle, j'en ai demandé une autre à la musique : ce fut le début de malheurs inespérés.
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