Able Quote by Ayn Rand

He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment…

— Leo Tolstoy

He had discovered that people who allow themselves to be blown about by the winds of emotion and impulse are always unhappy people.

— Jean Rhys

“In his opinion, humans were best when miserable, and so he had worked at being miserable his whole life, and in his generous way…

— Rodman Philbrick

“He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of…

— Graham Greene

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that…

— Horace Walpole

“He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the…

— Lev Grossman

“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

“he expected after the pleasant days GOD had given him, he should have his turn of pain and suffering; but that he was not…

— Brother Lawrence

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“For man never reasons so much and becomes so introspective as when he suffers ; since he is anxious to get at the cause…

— Luigi Pirandello

What makes man most unhappy is to be deprived not of that which he had, but of that which he did not have, and…

— Jacques Maritain

He found himself looking into many faces for potentional love, and seeing many people as shining vessels of possibility. Perhaps this time there would…

— Cassandra Clare