“Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.”
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Michel De Montaigne264
(1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, … 1533–1592Related quotes
“That to live by one man's will became the cause of all men's misery.”
Richard Hooker (1554–1600) English bishop and Anglican Divine
Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie (1594), Book I, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.”
Addison Mizner (1872–1933) American architect
The Cynic's Calendar
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
Source: Voyage of the Beagle
Robertson Davies (1913–1995) Canadian journalist, playwright, professor, critic, and novelist
Letter to Horace Davenport (3 April 1989).
“Money does not buy you happiness, but lack of money certainly buys you misery.”
Daniel Kahneman (1934) Israeli-American psychologist
Source: Well-Being: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology: Foundations of Hedonic Psychology