Blame Quote by John McGahern

“He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of…

— Graham Greene

People, he thought, were as hungry for a sight of joy as he had always been--for a moment's relief from that gray load of…

— Ayn Rand

“But walking along Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn, in his black overcoat and his gray interview suit, Quentin knew he wasn’t happy. Why not? He…

— Lev Grossman

“Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness—everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being (195).”

— Jack Kerouac

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He was alone in the doorway, digging the street. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness--everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged…

— Jack Kerouac

“There was no doubt in my mind that the man next to me was the same one who had been in my visions for…

— L.J. Kentowski

“He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the…

— Lev Grossman

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Once he’d had happiness but for so brief a time; happiness was made of quicksilver, it ran out of your hand like quicksilver. There…

— Dorothy B. Hughes

“The whiskey tasted like expensive honey. A bit too sweet, with smoky and earthy undertones. He hated it, but it was the beverage that…

— J.C. Reed

“He wasn't a happy drunk and when he'd had too much, his frustration spilled out of him in an angry torrent of false bravado.…

— Ed Duncan