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91d9765 I need you to be happy. I need one of us to be happy. happy life miserable sad Holly Black
b0cddf4 Oh, darling, I've been so miserable. the-sun-also-rises darling miserable sad Ernest Hemingway
bdf4616 And must I now begin to doubt - who never doubted all these years? My heart is stone, and still it trembles. The world I have known is lost in the shadows. Is he from heaven or from hell? And does he know, that granting me my life today, this man has killed me, even so. - Javert les mis musical miserable Victor Hugo
79c05a1 I am malicious because I am miserable malicious miserable Mary Shelley
4a629ad I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other. mad alcoholism alcoholism-addiction-recovery miserable alcoholic Anne Brontë
1e433cc "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived." misery miserable Neil Gaiman
21ea60f "Happiness is an illusion, Natalie. It doesn't actually exist." "Of course it does," I said. "It's what you feel when you're not sad." "That's unconsciousness. And I'm pretty sure that I'm miserable when I am unconscious, too." happiness natalie unconsciousness lee mr-monk monk miserable sad Lee Goldberg
504a3f6 She had all day every day to figure out some decent and satisfying way to live, and yet all she ever seemed to get for all her choices and all her freedom was more miserable. The autobiographer is almost forced to the conclusion that she pitied herself for being so free. freedom franzen self-pity miserable Jonathan Franzen
dcd81aa I am so miserable, there are so many questions, I can see no way out and am so wretched and feeble that I could lie forever on the sofa and keep opening and closing my eyes without knowing the difference. wretched forever questions miserable Franz Kafka
d6572f8 "The barber ran to the broken window, and saw Gavroche, who was running with all his might towards the Saint Jean market. On passing the barber's shop, Gavroche, who had the two children on his mind, could not resist the desire to bid him "good day", and had sent a stone through his sash. "See!" screamed the barber, who from white had become blue, "he makes mischief. What has anybody done to this Gamin?" humor les-mis les-misérables miserable victor-hugo Victor Hugo
995b2e2 I've been so unhappy for years, so unhappy . . . I don't understand how a human being can be so unhappy all the time and still be alive. suffering unending unendurable the-black-prince iris-murdoch unhappy suicidal miserable Iris Murdoch
fb48ac5 Lilian testifies eloquently to the misery that can ensue when the only challenge you can overcome in your own work is the challenge of coming to terms with the fact that you are not, in fact, presented with any challenges; when the only way you can exercise your powers is in coming up with creative ways to cover up the fact that you cannot exercise your powers; of managing the fact that you have, completely against your choosing, been turned into a parasite and fraud. pretentiousness challenge job miserable David Graeber