Grief Quote by G.K. Chesterton

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when joy is the fundamental thing in him, and grief the superficial.

— Lord Chesterfield

“The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. ”

— Vaclav Havel

“Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sorrow.”

— Marcel Pagnol

“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Man needs, for his happiness, not merely the enjoyment of this or that, but hope, and enterprise and change.”

— Bertrand Russell

“When a person fears his own sadness, he will attack the joy of others.”

— Robin Sacredfire

“He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own dispositions will waste his life…

— Samuel Johnson

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but on the mastery of his passions.”

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“When all things lasted so short a time and nothing mattered very much, it seemed pitiful that men, attaching an absurd importance to trivial…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Man craves joy far more than anything else in life, but there is nothing as madly intoxicating as the feeling of joy that comes…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“Man only notices his sorrows; he takes his happiness for granted.”

— Dostoyevsky Fyodor

“The tragedy of man is the difference between what he can be, and what he is.”

— David Grant Urban