“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands — literally thousands — of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.” — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
“Of all the calamities to which the condition of mortality exposes mankind, the loss of reason appears, to those who have the least spark of humanity, by far the most dreadful, and they behold that last stage of human wretchedness, with deeper commiseration than any other. But the poor wretch, who is in it, laughs and sings perhaps, and is altogether insensible of his own misery.” — Adam Smith, “Of Sympathy,” The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“FAMOUS, adj.: Conspicuously miserable.” — Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
“Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.” — Daniel Handler (as Lemony Snicket), The Wide Window
“Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don’t mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.” — Susan Ertz, The Story of Julian
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” — Carlos Castaneda, Journey To Ixtlan
“If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.” — Frank Zappa, The Day It Is, 1969
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