Happiness Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick, Youth must be foolish and mirthful and blind,…

— Tennessee Williams

“It is an illusion that youth is happy: an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Though solitude, endured too long, Bids youthful joys too soon decay, Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue, And overclouds my noon of day;…

— Anne Brontë

“What those years said of themselves was that they were the most joyous of years, and anyone who failed to rejoice was immediately suspected…

— Milan Kundera

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for…

— Christopher Nuttall

“There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as youth's…

— Oscar Wilde

“She lay in the silvery shadows with courage rising and made the plans that a sixteen-year-old makes when life has been so pleasant that…

— Margaret Mitchell

“A young gratuitous smile; trust and distrust; Promiscuities of bed and board and road; The one assured treasure A life, in recollection, truly possessed.”

— Robert Wells

“I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame, or one…

— Charlotte Brontë

“It is enough to say that her perception of the endless interest of the place was such as might have been expected in a…

— Henry James

“She was very fond of thinking and getting at the truth of things, but was so far from being pedantic, so full of youthful…

— Feodor Dostoevsky