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To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

» Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist, essayist and dramatist [Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957]

All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.

» Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) French mathematician, physicist and philosopher

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living

» C. S. Lewis (1898-1963) Irish author and scholar[Clive Staples Lewis]

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

» Francis Picabia (1878-1953) French painter, and poet

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

» George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright, critic, political activist

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

» Graham Greene (1904-1991) English writer

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

» Jean de la Bruyère (1645-1696) French satiric moralist

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

» Karl Marx (1818-1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

» Lord Byron (1788-1824) British poet and politician

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

» Orison Swett Marden (1850-1924) American author and founder of Success magazine

Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to t

» Samuel Butler (1835-1902) Novelist, iconoclastic Victorian-era English author

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

» William Penn (1644-1718) British religious leader

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

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A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

» Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American moral and social philosopher and author

Never was a miser a brave soul.

» George Herbert (1593-1632) British poet

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

» John Dryden (1631-1700) British poet, dramatist and critic

'Tis the only comfort of the miserable to have partners in their woes.

» Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

» Will Rogers (1879-1935) American humorist and actor

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