Quote by Michelle Magorian

“…it was rather because she felt less happy than she had expected.  She laughed because she was disappointed…”

— Jane Austen

“I must be happy, he said, it is less pleasant than I should have thought.”

— Samuel Beckett

“I laugh as an unfamiliar feeling envelops me. I think it might be happiness.”

— Paula Stokes

“She gave the impression of smiling with difficulty, possibly for fear of getting wrinkles.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

“I had never heard her sound so calm, so resigned to her fate. She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was…

— Paulo Coelho

“It's hard to keep a straight face when I just wanna smile- Fun.”

— Fun

“She laughs. It is the simplest, purest joy on earth, I realise, to make someone you care about laugh.”

— Matt Haig

“I once asked her if she was happy. “That depends on what I am able to get done today,” she said, laughing.”

— Padma Lakshmi

“She blinked, surprised into silence by her own foolish pleasure at his words, and then laughed at herself for being pleased with the suggestion…

— Kristin Cashore

“Perhaps it’s better to be unhappy than not to feel anything at all,’ I said.”

— Barbara Pym

“She laughed and said how silly we were to not accept life for what it was, difficult.”

— Pepper Phillips

“But there was, she knew, something else. Happiness, she supposed. Whatever that might be. What, exactly, she wondered, was happiness. Very positively she wanted…

— Nella Larsen