Happiness Quote by Kōbō Abe Download Open image ““Only the happy ones return to contentment. Those who were sad return to despair.”” — Kōbō Abe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness
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“Yet for all that I have had more joy than any of them, they were positive and depressed, and I am negative and happy.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“They were happy times, although we did not know it then. We never know happiness until it is gone.” — Judith Arnopp Copy Share Image
“…feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
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“Depression years come back to me now as the happy times, even though we were all struggling. We were happy and didn't know it.” — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
“People like me who lack something are liable to become spiteful critics.” — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
“I rather think the world is like sand. The fundamental nature of sand is very difficult to grasp when you think of it in… — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“Injuries to the body, especially the face, are not treated simply as problems of form. We should rather speak of themas belonging in the… — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“What we mean when we say "terrible conditions" is conditions which we are aware of as being terrible.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“He wanted to believe that his own lack of movement had stopped all movement in the world, the way a hibernating frog abolishes winter.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the… — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“It is manifestly pregnant and has a bulging white belly heavy with its load of kittens.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
Many people ask why a writer commits suicide. But I think that people who ask don't know the vanity and the nothingness of writing.… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
“Everyone has his own philosophy that doesn't hold good for anybody else.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
“It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal; we’re touched by it.” — Kōbō Abe Copy Share Image
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Sometimes we wish for the feel but we never understand that we have to give a lot to get the feel ! — Robert Reynolds Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
