Happiness Quote by Jamie S. Rich

“Melancholy is an escape not from reality, but unreality of the world.”

— Raheel Farooq

“My thoughts about human happiness, for some peculiar reason, had always been tinged with a certain sadness.”

— Anton Chekhov

“It was as if all the melancholy I’d ever known, all the nights I sat alone thinking life sucked, had added up to our…

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?”

— Heather Chaplin

“Melancholy isn’t always a disorder that needs to be cured. It can be a species of intelligent grief which arises when we come face-to-face…

— Alain de Botton

“The biggest problem with melancholy is that it is more detailed than the world.”

— Lisa Robertson

Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.

— Victor Hugo

“Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.”

— Albert Camus

“Active natures are rarely melancholy. Activity and sadness are incompatible.”

— Anonymous

“So it is that we are unhappy we sense more acutely the unhappiness of others; rather than dispersing, the emotion becomes focused...”

— Fydor Dostoyevsky

“Melancholy people have two reasons for being so: they don’t know or they hope.”

— Albert Camus

“Somehow this wasn't the same as melancholy. It was something else, about how melancholy and nostalgia weren't relevant in the slightest. Things just happened.…

— Ali Smith