Happiness Quote by Anonymous

“Pleasure is frail like a dewdrop, while it laughs it dies. But sorrow is strong and abiding. Let sorrowful love wake in your eyes.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

“But this pleasure was not unalloyed with pain, and it seemed as if the universal joy of the awakening world could now only impart…

— Guy de Maupassant

“An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered all in one moment with its…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“I am living through days as happy as those God keeps for his chosen people; and whatever becomes of me, I can never say…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

“Whatever the internal mechanism that moderated the human capacity for joy, mine had long been broken beyond repair. And I knew this was a…

— Alexis Hall

“And when the soul has yielded to pleasure, its functions and actions grow weak, and any undertaking comes from a nerveless and unsteady source.”

— Seneca

“Maybe a certain degree of deprivation was necessary to the experience of pleasure, just as suffering was an integral part of joy.”

— Claire Holden Rothman

“He now felt glad at having suffered sorrow and trouble, because it enabled him to enjoy so much better all the pleasure and happiness…

— Hans Christian Andersen

“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that to the…

— Charles Dickens

“A joy without object or reason rose within him, but like all such joys ebbed into frustration almost immediately because he did not know…

— John Clellon Holmes

“Coming abruptly, and without giving me time to trace it accurately to its source among so many ideas of a very different kind, the…

— Marcel Proust

“But it's in despair that you discover the most intense pleasure, especially when you are acutely conscious of the hopelessness of your predicament.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky