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Not to be born at all would be the best thing for man, never to behold the sun's scorching rays; but if one is born, then one is to press as quickly as possible to the portals of Hades, and rest there under the earth.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Thiognis
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Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Edgar Saltus
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Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Bill Press
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I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Voltaire
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He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Willa Cather
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We semaphore from ship to ship, but they're sinking, too.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Francis Thompson
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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Author Unknown
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Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Bill Fitch
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We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Djuna Barnes
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The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Martin Esslin
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The world bruises us all, but some heal faster than others - and some bleed to death.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: D H Mondfleur
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I see it all perfectly: there are two possibilities, one can either do this or do that. My honest opinion and friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it, you will regret both.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Kierkegaard
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Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Mignon McLaughlin
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Janie's a pretty typical teenager - angry, insecure, confused. I wish I could tell her that's all going to pass, but I don't want to lie to her.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Alan Ball Source: American Beauty
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I like long walks, especially when they're taken by people who annoy me.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Fred Allen
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You're obliged to pretend respect for people and institutions you think absurd. You live attached in a cowardly fashion to moral and social conventions you despise, condemn, and know lack all foundation. It is that permanent contradiction between your ideas and desires and all the dead formalities and vain pretenses of your civilization which makes you sad, troubled and unbalanced. In that intolerable conflict you lose all joy of life and all feeling of personality, because at every moment they suppress and restrain and check the free play of your powers. That's the poisoned and mortal wound of the civilized world.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Octave Mirbeau
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Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Benjamin Disraeli Source: Coningsby
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It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can live happily in this world.
Category: Curmudgeons Author: Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
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He seems
To have seen better days, as who has not
Who has seen yesterday?
Category: Curmudgeons Author: George Gordon
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