785 Quotes About Misery

I was miserable, of course, for I was seventeen, and so I swung into action and wrote a poem, and it was miserable, for that's how I thought poetry worked: you digested experience and shat literature. [from "Mingus at the Showplace"]

These souls were eternally disconnected, forever separated with a force that would not allow any interchange. They were like another race with no societal tie to each other, bound on their own miserable, independent journeys, alike only in the obvious countenance of pain.

When men set out to create order, they create only misery.

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source of all that was bad in men and women, but he had none of the greatness, and none of the grace, of which human beings were capable, so that by only by corrupting them was his own pain diminished, and thus his existence made more tolerable.

Discontent is the nagging of the imagination. Discontent is evidence that your imagination has not given up on you. It is still pressing, swelling, trying to get your attention by whispering: "Not this.

Such is the villainy of the universe’s trickery – Moments commit mistakes and decades endure the misery

When we oppose oppression, we lift our hands from the collective reins that empower such oppression.

Nu hører du Læser, hvad Handel og KaarVi fattig' Nord-lændinger daglig udstaar,Og hvorpaa vi faar os at lave.

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