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  • I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of deathamong Americans. What you don't know can indeed hurt you, and so those who can neither read nor write lead miserable lives, like Richard Wright's character, Bigger Thomas, born dead with no past or future.

    Education   Hurt   Cancer  
    Ishmael Reed (1988). “Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper”, Scribner
  • [H]appy or miserable, life is the only blessing which man possesses[.

    Blessing   Men   Life Is  
    Giacomo Casanova (2013). “The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt Volume 1: The Venetian Years”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
  • Lily and James only made you Secret-Keeper because I suggested it,” Black hissed, so venomously that Pettigrew took a step backward. “I thought it was the perfect plan... a bluff... Voldemort would be sure to come after me, would never dream they’d use a weak, talentless thing like you... It must have been the finest moment of your miserable life, telling Voldemort you could hand him the Potters.

    Dream   Hands   Perfect  
  • I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people. It's not my idea of a good time. It's just such a miserable life.

    Ideas   People   Drunk  
  • 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.

  • The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.

    Life   People   Attention  
  • I am at a loss to figure out how to rid my e-mail of those bottom-feeders of the electronic world, the generators of spam.... If I were Emperor of the World, I would lock all the spammers in a room and force them to watch nothing but TV commercials for the rest of their miserable lives, and I would condemn the people who respond to spammers to do nothing but clean the toilets in this room.

    Loss   People   Mail  
  • If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.

    Life   Death   Reflection  
    David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.683, Delphi Classics
  • There's a schizoid quality to our relationship with animals, in which sentiment and brutality exist side by side. Half the dogs in America will receive Christmas presents this year, yet few of us pause to consider the miserable life of the pig - an animal easily as intelligent as a dog - that becomes the Christmas ham.

    "An Animal's Place" by Michael Pollan, www.nytimes.com. November 10, 2002.
  • From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

    Night   Heaven   Looks  
  • Most men employ the first part of life to make the other part miserable. [Fr., La plupart des hommes emploient la premiere part vie a rendre l'autre miserable.]

    Life   Men   Firsts  
  • If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life.

  • Whatever you remember, or feel, you need to know that whatever they were they did one worthwhile thing in their miserable lives. And that was you. Whatever they were, they couldn't destroy that. They couldn't stop you from becoming.

  • I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.

  • They were offered the choice between becoming kings or the couriers of kings. The way children would, they all wanted to be couriers. Therefore there are only couriers who hurry about the world, shouting to each other - since there are no kings - messages that have become meaningless. They would like to put an end to this miserable life of theirs but they dare not because of their oaths of service.

    Franz Kafka (1961). “Parables and paradoxes: in German and English”
  • It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

    Morning   Fog   Six  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Most men spend the best part of their lives making the remaining part wretched.

    Life   Men   Use  
    "Of Man". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.
  • Our true friends are those who are with us when the good things happen. They cheer us on and are pleased by our triumphs. False friends only appear at difficult times, with their sad, supportive faces, when, in fact, our suffering is serving to console them for their miserable lives.

    FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 23, 2011
  • It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.

  • You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.

    Running   Lonely   Home  
  • To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.

    Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies: From the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.369
  • But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable trust. It just saved your miserable life, that questionable show of thought, my itchy-witch.' Al’s smile shifted, becoming lighter. 'And now you will live to possibly regret it.

    Clever   Regret   Als  
  • He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.

    Funny   Life   Change  
  • My name is Zia Rashid.” She tilted her head as if listening. Right on cue, the entire building rumbled. Dust sprinkled from the ceiling, and the slithering sounds of scorpion doubled in volume behind us. “And right now,” Zia continued, sounding a bit disappointed, “I must save your miserable lives.

    Dust   Names   Listening  
  • If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

  • Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

    Funny   Life   Humor  
    "Fictional character: Alvy Singer". "Annie Hall", www.imdb.com. 1977.
  • Even the most miserable life is better than a sheltered existence in an organized society where everything is calculated and perfected.

  • Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share.

    Fall   Light   Grumbling  
    "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.
  • People are living such miserable lives economically. They want the escape. They want the fantasy. They'd love the dream of being king for a day or queen for a day.

    Dream   Kings   Queens  
    Source: www.cyinterview.com
  • We all make mistakes. Sometimes I think the only point of our miserable lives is simply to learn how to live with the consequences of the bad decisions we´ve made.

    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.681, St. Martin's Griffin
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