Happiness Quote by Honoré de Balzac

“There is still a certain grace in a dead festival. It has been happy. Upon those chairs in disarray, among those flowers which are…

— Victor Hugo

“There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.”

— Frederick William Faber

“and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Who were these people? Where was all this joy, and where does joy go when it leaves your family? Does it go into someone…

— Crystal Chan

“How mingled and imperfect are all our sublunary joys!”

— James Joyce

“And victory, joy, wild hope, and swelling certitude and tenderness surged through the conduits of our blood as we heard that drunken cry, and…

— Thomas Wolfe

“At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,…

— Thomas Hardy

“Laughter and books and wine are holy things; and living is good; and death is a breathlessness with the whole adventure of finding everywhere…

— Henry Rago

“We sat there in our flower crowns until the world went dark, until we were half-sick from sugar but still laughing, laughing, laughing like…

— Emery Lord

“This was the joy that the world sought--sacred and pagan all at once. A union between two dissimilars into a seamless one. A picture…

— Sylvain Reynard

“COLLOQUE SENTIMENTAL   In the deserted park, silent and vast, Erewhile two shadowy glimmering figures passed.   Their lips were colorless, and dead their…

— Paul Verlaine

“There were so many times that the sorrow and agony of a particular moment was punctuated by something intensely wonderful and beautiful. Laughter was…

— Laura Sobiech