Sometimes I read a biography of some tempestuous artist and find myself longing for fireworks! booze! bloody fights!; I do think that life must be so much more thrilling when you're actively miserable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
When I talk about work or my take on life, all the joyfulness and excitement never seem to make it in.
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
I look on life as a joyous adventure.
You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.
I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.
I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.
I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely.