Happiness Quote by Kate Chopin

“Dependence, she knew, and the longing for more than what you had, led to unhappiness and discontent.”

— Nora Roberts

“That was bliss. Being cared for. Wanted. Feeling so necessary to someone’s existence that there was no place for the loneliness inside her.”

— Julie Miller

“But she was still operating on lonely-person principles, still worried that her happiness could be wrenched away at any moment, for reasons out of…

— Chris Pavone

“Her life was her own now and if there was happiness to be found, it was up to her to seek it. She couldn't,…

— Debbie Macomber

“Perhaps the heart of our melancholy is that we miss the woman we were meant to be. We miss our authentic selves.”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“And the feeling I had was not of wanting her so much as being surrounded by her, blundering inside her life without having moved.”

— Jennifer Egan

“That was how she felt. Like a petal clinging to its stem, hopeful of staying, fearful of being cast away.”

— Amanda Tero

“She distrusted people who were happy all the time. It simply wasn’t necessary.”

— Tim Ellis

“She was sure no one had ever been more in love than they were in those weeks, consumed by such longing, wanting to just…

— Catherine Lacey

“Maybe I'd ignored longing so many times through the years until eventually I'd just stopped feeling it.”

— Patti Callahan Henry

“She could feel herself getting sentimental, which she always was. Sometimes she missed people before they even left her, got depressed about a vacation…

— Jennifer Close

“She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.”

— Donna Woolfolk Cross