Happiness Quotes (page 74)

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• happy love
• enough
• thoughts

Martha I thought you loved her. Bernard Enough to want her happiness above all things. Martha You are forty-five, aren’t you? I forgot that for a moment. Bernard Dear Martha. You have such an attractive way of putting things. W. Somerset Maugham

• kindness
• happy
• death

I should not have had that fear of death when I wished for it all the same. The unhappiness that I need and long for is different. It is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and lust after death. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for. Herman Hesse

• book
• happy him
• personality

What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony, he has escaped it more than I. And he escapes it more easily than I. The truth isn't with him or with me, because it isn't with anyone, but happiness does... Fernando Pessoa

• happy
• understanding
• understand

he could not quite understand what had happened. he began to sense an aura of hitherto unknown happiness emanating from them Milan Kundera

• thanks
• enough
• soul

He said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being."Jean Valjean about Cossette Victor Hugo

• together
• happy
• old people

...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• happy
• partly
• parts

to be without some of the things you want is an indespensible part of happiness Bertrand Russell

• busy
• good
• house

I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race. Victor Hugo

• happy
• sharing
• shared

Misfortunes shared creates happiness. Victor Hugo

• moving
• lifetime
• true

Mine is a most peaceable disposition. My wishes are: a humble cottage with a thatched roof, but a good bed, good food, the freshest milk and butter, flowers before my window, and a few fine trees before my door; and if God wants to make my happiness complete, he will grant me the joy of seeing some six or seven of my enemies hanging from those trees. Before death I shall, moved in my heart, forgive them all the wrong they did me in their lifetime. One must, it is true, forgive one's... Heinrich Heine

• happy
• gratitude
• wonder

Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• life
• happy
• happy life

To upset everything every 3 or 4 years is my notion of a happy life. Virginia Woolf

• happy
• best
• change

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. Euripides

• happy
• him
• happy him

Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. Henrik Ibsen

• happy
• wishes
• to live

She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live. Daphne du Maurier