Well, have you ever known someone who is nice and nasty, who makes you love them one minute and hate them the next? Who makes you feel wonderful and terrible and you never know which one it is going to be?
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Quotes tagged ‘Misery’
Love. He recoiled from the very idea. He knew all about love: love was following his best friend around school like a lost puppy, putting up with all manner of shit just to be near him. Love was sobbing himself to sleep night after endless night because the guy who’d taken his virginity hadn’t calle…
The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see -- the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survive…
Self-pity doesn’t get you anywhere.
Rough times help you appreciate the good times.
Life sucks. And then it gets better. And then it sucks again.
You think it is okay for you to be sad every day. But it's not okay. And you do not deserve it.
I survived, but it's not a happy ending.
Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
Caring doesn't sometimes lead to misery. It always does.
If, for example, you are miserly by nature, you will never go beyond a certain limit; only generous souls attain greatness.
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains…
When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.
Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.
Commitment matters. And commitment to the marriage doesn’t just mean saying, ‘I’m staying ’til death do us part—even if I have to make everyone miserable in the process.’ It means saying, ‘I commit, every day, to make this marriage the best it can be.’ Commitment is an active, daily decision, not a…
We mourn the future because it's easier than admitting that we're miserable in the present.
He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.
Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.
Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.