Curmudgeonesque

There are people who have an appetite for grief; pleasure is not strong enough and they crave pain. They have mithridatic stomachs which must be fed on poisoned bread, natures so doomed that no prosperity can sooth their ragged and dishevelled desolation. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not a fragrant world. – Raymond Chandler

Sarcasm is the sour cream of wit. – Author Unknown

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death. – Fran Lebowitz

There are some mortals who are never happy save when they have some hurt feelings to enjoy. – Author unknown, from Dallas-Galveston News, c.1894

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools. – William Shakespeare, King Lear

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. – George Bernard Shaw

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it raging and roaring like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free and ending just where it began. – William Hazlitt

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people. – G.K. Chesterton

Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. – Edgar Saltus

Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse. – Bill Press

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. – Willa Cather

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. – Ernest Hemingway (Thanks, Schanna)

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met. – Bill Fitch

The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaninglessness. – Martin Esslin

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. – SÃ¸ren Kierkegaard

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists. – Jean Rostand

Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind. – Hesketh Pearson, The Whispering Gallery

I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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. – Nicolas Chamfort