Quotes on curmudgeon
All our lives we are putting pennies - our most golden pennies - into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.
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Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes
Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the crimes, follies, and misfortunes that would befall us later on, we would all stay in our mother's wombs, and then there would be nobody in the world but a great number of very fat, very irritated women.
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Lemony Snicket Quotes
I put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!"
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John Stuart Mill Quotes
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.
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David T. Wolf Quotes
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, that is not paid with moan; for we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
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Francis Thompson Quotes
The mad are happy, the sane ignorant; those of us stuck on the sane side of madness or the mad fringe of sanity are in a purgatorial cage.
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Anonymous Quotes
The enthusiastic, to those who are not, are always something of a trial.
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Alban Goodier Quotes
Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse.
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Bill Press Quotes
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
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Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
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Horace Walpole Quotes
If there be a hell upon earth, it is to be found in a melancholy man's heart.
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Robert Burton Quotes
Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.
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Bill Fitch Quotes
We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs.
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Kenneth Clark Quotes
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.
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Octave Mirbeau Quotes
I do not believe in revealed religion - I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another.
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George Gordon Byron Quotes
Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.
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Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Many of us go through life feeling as an actor might feel who does not like his part, and does not believe in the play.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
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Jonathan Swift Quotes
He had an astringent spirit, the sort of fellow who uses dehydrated onion when the recipe calls for fresh, not because he's out but solely on principle.
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Emme Woodhull-Bäche Quotes
I don't answer the phone. I get the feeling whenever I do that there will be someone on the other end.
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Fred Couples Quotes
The world bruises us all, but some heal faster than others - and some bleed to death.
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D.H. Mondfleur Quotes
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.
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Fran Lebowitz Quotes
I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.
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William Cullen Bryant Quotes
My mind's terrain has become exceedingly rough. Emotional scars are changing my internal geography faster than the mapmaker can keep pace. Wrong turns and dead ends abound, and I'm afraid someday I'll drown in a river I didn't know was there.
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D.H. Mondfleur Quotes
Comfort, or revelation; God owes us one of these, but surely not both.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes
I like long walks, especially when they're taken by people who annoy me.
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Fred Allen Quotes
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
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Maya Angelou Quotes
Paradoxical as it sounds, many intellectuals prefer life in the mud to life in clear water.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Oftentimes, when people are miserable, they will want to make other people miserable, too. But it never helps.
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Lemony Snicket Quotes
Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation.
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James Grover Thurber Quotes
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.
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Peter McArthur Quotes
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.
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Alan Ball Quotes
Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? Is it because we are not the person involved?
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Mark Twain Quotes
The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.
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Charles de Gaulle Quotes
I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
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Antonio Porchia Quotes
Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.
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Edgar Saltus Quotes
I love mankind - it's people I can't stand.
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Charles M. Schulz Quotes
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
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William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
I am too tired to fight, but too stubborn to conform to the ways of this fucked up world. I give up.
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Author Unknown Quotes
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
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Paul Valéry Quotes