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Happiness Quotes (page 78)

Of course it hurt that we could never love each other in a physical way. We would have been far more happy if we had. But that was like the tides, the change of seasons--something immutable, an immovable destiny we could never alter. No matter how cleverly we might shelter it, our delicate friendship wasn't going to last forever. We were bound to reach a dead end. That was painfully clear. Haruki Murakami
Chuck Palahniuk quote: "Art never comes from happiness."
Art never comes from happiness. Chuck Palahniuk
Orhan Pamuk quote: "Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to..."
Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy. Orhan Pamuk
He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that had taken possession of his soul. Horace Walpole
You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it--which is what matters most. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Jane Austen quote: "Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was..."
Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be s? Jane Austen
Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who stop to consider the antithesis; that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. Primo Levi
Andre Gide quote: "What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be..."
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it. Andre Gide
Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people. There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness. Arthur Schopenhauer
Marianne Williamson quote: "Children are happy because they don't have a file in their..."
Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong. Marianne Williamson
Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life. Rene Descartes
To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness. Emile M. Cioran
Solon quote: "count no man happy until he be dead."
count no man happy until he be dead. Solon
Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy. Maurice Sendak
J. M. Barrie quote: "David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what..."
David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'. J. M. Barrie

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