Happiness Quote by Charles Dickens

“I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of a massacre…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“For fairness and loyalty, however important to the head, were issues that could seldom be squared in the human heart, at the deepest depths…

— Richard Russo

“Such was the way of the discontented. No proof, no explanation or reason would ever be enough to disabuse them of tightly held, deeply…

— Christie Golden

“I went to them without fear, child, prepared for a pitched battle, expecting the fierce Watchers, famed for their love of Earth, to defend…

— Kirby Crow

“All my romances, by some kind of collusion between their heroes, have invariably followed a prearranged pattern of mediocrity and tragedy, or more precisely,…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The entrant mooed like a calf but in insolence looked about him. Hew saw Kit. Kit saw him. Nay, it was more than pure…

— Anthony Burgess

“Bloodshed for blood shed makes mourners of us all.  There is no joy in revenge, no taste of honeyed happiness found in the goblet…

— Kate Danley

“But alas, my dear child, we are the slaves of custom, the dupes of prejudice, and dare not stem the torrent of the opposing…

— Fanny Burney

“It was obvious that their sorrows were conjoined.”

— Mervyn Peake

“His anguish had grown skeletal in its solitude. He wished it didn’t have to be so, that one could ingest pain and keep it…

— Tatjana Soli

“the custom of bowing to the earth, and the feeling which prompted the casting of dust on the head, in time of bitter affliction,…

— G.H. Pember

“Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader…

— Kurt Vonnegut