72 quotes found
“When you are deep in misery, you reach out to those who can help, people who can understand.”
“You're like a man who loves nothing better than a thick steak but wouldn't last an hour in a slaughterhouse.”
“Once you are miserable you are miserable there's no getting out of misery even if you'll be succeeded to get out of it,once again it will hunt you down and conquer it will conquer your heart once a...”
“The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragica...”
“These are slum kids, I was a slum kid. Everybody talks like that.”
“Those of us who have the luck to enjoy good health forget about this vast parallel universe of the unwell-their daily miseries, their banal ordeals. Only when you cross that frontier into the world...”
“I'm tired of being responsible for other people's misery. I can't even put up with my own.”
“The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book is, because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end.”
“It'd felt good to be part of an "us," with the same thoughts, the same feelings, the same miseries.”
“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endl...”
“Pain and suffering are inevitable in our lives, but misery is an option”
“What rent do you pay here?" I inquired. "I dont know,what is it, Sam?" "All we make," answered Sam. It is a depressing place,bare, unshaded, with no charm of past association, only a memory of forc...”
“Then he took the pages, smoothed them with the palm of his hand, and fixed them with pins to the walls. So that now, if he sat looking down upon Grape Street, the letters and images encircled him. ...”
“That she made a point to eat only the gristliest chicken bits, the burned biscuits, the mealiest potatoes, while she complained that his children were, variously, weak-minded, hysterical or sickly,...”
“Writing does not cause misery, it is born of misery.”
“He that is down need fear no fall.”
“Misery loves company.”
“Fire tries gold misery tries brave men.”
“Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.”
“A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.”
