Believe Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.

— Khaled Hosseini

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

It wasn't about being happy or unhappy. I just didn't want to be me anymore.

— Sarah Dessen

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and…

— Anonymous

I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is…

— Anonymous

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

— T. S. Eliot

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy,…

— Roberto Bolano

I was never happy, I was just less pissed off.

— Hyde

Sometimes I found that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

— Joanna Field

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted…

— Alexandra Bracken

Did you think I was happy? Silly little boy, I only wanted to be happy. Sure, in your arms I was happy, but as…

— Anonymous