Forever Quote by John Fowles

His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot…

— John Fowles

He was persuaded he could know no happiness but in the society of one with whom he could for ever indulge the melancholy that…

— Horace Walpole

“For the sole thing of which any man can be deprived is the present; since this is all he owns, and nobody can lose…

— Marcus Aurelius

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

— Dostoyevsky Fyodor

“When he was sad, he never used it as an occasion to make anyone else sad.”

— Jeff Zentner

“I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who…

— Jane Austen

“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

“do not be sad, because I am sad all the time, so do not be sad”

— Nobuya 2016

“You are in despair, because you wish to live for your own happiness.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets…

— Anonymous

“But I had absolutely lost all sense of personal dignity, and could not tear myself away from the spectacle of my own misery.”

— Ivan Turgenev

The moment one asks himself whether he is happy, he ceases to be so.

— John Stuart Mill