Accounts Quote by Fyodor Dostoevsky

And, indeed, I will ask on my own account here, an idle question: which is better - cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which…

— Anonymous

“I'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better--cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? Well, which is better?”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Less is more. Happiness is found close to the necessities of life, not in needless complexity and meaningless multiplicity of choice.

— Peter Dale Scott

Even temporary happiness is much better than permanent misery.

— Ritu

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

— Margaret Oliphant

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty…

— Jean de la Bruyere

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

— Charles Bukowski

Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price.

— Orson Scott Card

Temporary happiness isnt worth long term pain¦

— Anonymous

Money can't buy happiness. But it sure makes misery easier to live with.

— Anonymous

You cannot truly experience happiness until you experience pain. Because then only are you able to compare the difference and appreciate the gift of…

— Pauline Seaport

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

— George Washington