Happiness Quote by Edith Wharton

“Her life was her own now and if there was happiness to be found, it was up to her to seek it. She couldn't,…

— Debbie Macomber

“She'd spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened--apart from everything else and not subject to it.…

— Laini Taylor

“She was sometimes happy, in the sense of being somehow complete, and ready for what another day might bring. And knows she is no…

— William Gibson

“Her life was shameful and lonely. There was no longer any hope for her, there was no chance of escape. Yet, in spite of…

— Anna Kavan

“...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping…

— Jane Austen

“She was moved to a profound but pleasurable melancholy by the evidence that human life is brief and long survived by the material things…

— Helen Hooven Santmyer

“But she was still operating on lonely-person principles, still worried that her happiness could be wrenched away at any moment, for reasons out of…

— Chris Pavone

“This was it, a crossroad where a happy home was within her grasp, and on the other side lay years of loneliness and misery.”

— Anya Wylde

“It was the air she wanted and the world she would now exclusively choose; the quiet chambers, nobly overwhelming, rich but slightly veiled, opened…

— Henry James

“Yet within a miles, Margaret knew of house after house, where she would for her own sake, and her mother for her Aunt Shaw's,…

— Elizabeth Gaskell

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“He had a feeling that somewhere in the course of her life something had happened to her, something terrible which in the end had…

— Louis Bromfield