Doe Quote by Marcel Proust

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

The disturbers of happiness are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

— Samuel Johnson

“For human nature is such that grief and pain—even simultaneously suffered—do not add up as a whole in our consciousness, but hide, the lesser…

— Primo Levi

Life is filled with detours and dead ends, trials and challenges of every kind. Each of us has likely had times when distress, anguish,…

— Russell M. Nelson

We all have sadness in our life and things that we can draw upon

— Sherilyn Fenn

A fundamental and unfortunate part of being alive is to suffer loss and to suffer grief.

— Travis Knight

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before…

— Alain de Botton

The disturbers of our happiness, in this world, are our desires, our griefs, and our fears.

— Samuel Johnson

“What do you think all of us are here for? Certainly not to seek happiness. We are not here to enjoy. We are here…

— Abhaidev

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

— Ambrose Bierce

“There is neither happiness nor misery in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has…

— Alexandre Dumas

“Although it is easy to imagine happiness as the upwards turn on this haphazard rising and falling of emotion which is life, but really…

— Michael Brent Jones