Time Quote by Jo Nesbø

“Only adults weep with joy. Children don't. They haven't learned how rare moments of true happiness are.”

— Heather Lende

“I was happy but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or…

— Jeanette Winterson

“...when it comes to defining adulthood, nothing has made me feel more grown-up than knowing that one of the two people in the world…

— Jean Hannah Edelstein

“Unhappiness where's when I was young, And we didn't give a damn, 'Cause we were raised, To see life as fun and take it…

— Dolores O'Riordan

“Some people don't want to be happy, and that's ok. They want meaningful lives, and those are not always the same as happy lives.”

— Eric Weiner

“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not…

— Lionel Shriver

“It’s kind of sad, if you think about it. Like there’s no continuity in people at all. Like something ruptures when you hit twelve,…

— Lauren Oliver

“Why did I think back then, that happiness was always just ahead in the future, when I would be an adult, able to make…

— V.C. Andrews

“Adults are prone to many unhappy differences of opinion.”

— Brilliant Dynamites Neon

“I loved my parents and wanted to make them proud of me - but no longer at the cost of my own happiness.”

— Rachel Hawthorne

“It was unfortunate the way adults had to repress their true feelings.”

— Liane Moriarty

“I can never understand why people seem to think that growing up with unhappy parents is better than growing up with a happy single…

— Sarah Morgan