It’s good to acknowledge that you found true happiness in your life – in that sense your life has not been wasted. But to admit you will never be happy like that again is hard.
– WILLIAM BOYD Any Human Heart
Quotes about Happiness
Thought-provoking and inspiring quotes on the subject of Happiness
Share This Quote Collection:Happiness… is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
– F. SCOTT FITZGERALD The Beautiful and Damned
“Happiness isn’t relative, any more than suffering is. No one is going to feel grateful that his life isn’t any worse.”
– MARTIN AMIS London Fields
For the philosopher is right who says that nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy;…
– VIRGINIA WOOLF Orlando
He explained to me and made me believe that happiness had nothing to do with one’s outward circumstances; but could be created only within.
– LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS The Rector of Justin
Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory.. Happiness is a scarlet cloak whose lining is in tatters.
– JULIAN BARNES Flaubert’s Parrot
…she understood that you only had to forget yourself and love others and you would be calm, happy and beautiful.
– LEO TOLSTOY Anna Karenina
“To dream is happiness!”
– ZANE GREY Riders of the Purple Sage