There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The key to happiness ... is tolerance of those who do not do as you do. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I walked out to brood on this life of ours, which seems from birth to death to be a steady loss, disguised… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Happiness was still on the other side of a glass door, but at least she could see it through the glass, like… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' 'What if those who do… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Pursuing happiness, and I did, and still do, is not at all the same thing as being happy - which I think… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Misery is a no U-turns, no stopping road. Travel down it pushed by those behind, tripped by those in front. Travel down… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The night I left home I felt that I had been tricked or trapped into going - and not even by Mrs… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Pursuing happiness, and I did, and I still do, is not at all the saem as being happy - which I think… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of happiness is more elusive, it is life long and not goal-centered. Whant you are pusuing is meaning - a… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are the hardest to cope with in silence. Once asked… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Pursuing happiness, and I did, and still do, is not at all the same as being happy- which I think is fleeting,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
And if I say to you that I am glad of everything we have done together, and sorry that we will not… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
If the sun is shining, stand in it- yes, yes, yes. Happy times are great, but happy times pass- they have to-… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“What you are pursuing is meaning -- a meaningful life. There's the hap -- the fate, the draw that is yours, and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“After nine nights must come ten and every desperate meeting only leaves you desperate for another. There is never enough to eat, never enough… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first. — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“Yes. Just pass me my leg will you? It's on top of the wardrobe where he threw it, and I think my right arm… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse -- there is more than… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“It's the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise expression. If what I feel is not precise than how should… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
What would it have meant to be happy? What would it have meant if things had been bright, clear, good between us? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“Mrs Ratlow was a widow, and she was head of English, but she still did all the cooking and cleaning for her two sons,… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“What art does is to coax us away from the mechanical and towards the miraculous. The so-called uselessness of art is a clue to… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
Happy Valentines Day to those who have found love, in whatever shape or form, and to those who are still hunting, don’t give up.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“It took me a long time to realise that there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
“He turned away and I turned to him in vivid heat to look on the sun-dried world. The groves and towers were gone. The… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share
