“The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.”
― Michel Houellebecq
Category Archives: MISERY, UNHAPPINESS
Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds. – Jean Burden
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Karl Cameron-Jackson and Mike Hopkins | 05 March 2012
The feral cat
Fresh blood dripping from your snarling mouth
your shoulders bunched, spine high-arched
you glared angrily at me as I drove past in my car.
Icon of primeval hunter, you crouched by the roadside
teeth burgeoning in crushing, crunching jaws
tearing flesh from a fresh-killed victim with razor claws.
Boldness imaged your new freedom
in an expanding heart that lusted
solely to hunt … stalk … kill prey.
You are growing wiser
stronger … faster … wilder.
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“I don’t know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things start to happen.” –
– Gary Larson
“When you start to get bored with your misery, you are on the first rung of recovery and you are beginning to climb back up. You add one thing at a time back into your life just as a break from monotony. Instead of feeling wretched, I will start reading again. Instead of feeling wretched, I will start working out again. I will start answering the phone. I will consider the city. I will think about coffee with friends. You start putting in the pieces until eventually what you have is an actual life.”
― Wendy Plump, Vow: A Memoir of Marriage
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
(Quote by – Colin Wilson)
“Are you a stupid sheep in the flock or a free eagle in the sky? Look at the mirror, what are you? Are you some dullish cattle in the herd or a wise owl in the forest? Look at the mirror, what are you?”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
Forgetting isn’t enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound. ”
― Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl
“Just for the sake of amusement, ask each passenger to tell you his story, and if you find a single one who hasn’t often cursed his life, who hasn’t told himself he’s the most miserable man in the world, you can throw me overboard head first.”
― Voltaire, Candide
A great man is always willing to be little.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
” Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, ‘Wait and Hope.”
― Alexandre Dumas
If you can’t say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me. ― Gertrude Stein
“Sitting around miserable all day won’t make you any happier.”
― John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad.
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dark Secrets
by Jeanine Leane, Wagga Wagga, NSW
They keep us locked away like dark secrets.
Never hearing our cries,
never seeing our misery,
never feeling our hunger
“You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you," said the Lion.”
C.S. Lewis, The Silver Chair
“I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been – if you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you – you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.”
C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe
THE OLD PROVERBIAL RECOVERY 