Happiness Quote by Pat Barker Download Open image ““His happiness was almost painful, like circulation returning to a dead leg.”” — Pat Barker ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happiness
“It’s nothing compared to happiness.” I snorted through gritted teeth. “What happiness?” “Exactly.” “Reality interrupts—” Jaw clenching, my nostrils flared as I felt a gush of blood flow. A whisper. “Life.” His blink was slow. “The mother of all bitches.” “And the beauty?” “Its absence is duly noted.” “Only to be found by those later.” Another swipe of my cheeks.… — Scarlett Dawn Copy Share
“He was always so happy when he returned that I wondered why he did it, why he tortured himself by watching a bruised world… — Chris Struyk-Bonn Copy Share Image
“He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.” — Phillip W. Simpson Copy Share Image
“My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization that I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Happiness is endless hapiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“... in his chest, his heart seeped. It wasn't blood that escaped - that had been shed long ago - but a thick, bile-like… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“...she discovered that her feet were cold, her head ached, and that her heart was colder than the former, fuller of pain than the… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“But I shot the dog myself. I took him into the barn holding on to his collar. He knew something bad was going to happen, and he rolled over on to his back and showed me his puppy-pink tummy and widdled a bit, quite certain these devices for deflecting aggression would work. I tickled him behind his ear and said,… — Pat Barker Copy Share
When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper. — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
When writing about historical characters I try to be as accurate as possible, and in particular not to misrepresent the view they held. With… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
I don't think it's possible to c-call yourself a C-Christian and... and j-just leave out the awkward bits.' -Wilfred Owen — Pat Barker Copy Share
The way I see it, when you put the uniform on, in effect you sign a contract. And you don't back out of a… — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars, — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer. — Pat Barker Copy Share Image
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation… There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
“WE CAN'T ALWAYS CONTROL OUR CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WE CAN CONTROL OUR ATTITUDE. WE MUST BE MORE CONCERNED WITH WHAT WE DO WITH WHAT HAPPENS… — MARVIN J. ASHTON Copy Share Image
I can skate beautifully. While performing on ice I always try to please the audience and to win as well. Being artistic is very… — Evgeni Plushenko Copy Share Image
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
“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content, knowing that he would never see anything so beautiful again. He wished he could have seen it for longer. More, he wished he could have taken it apart, studied it all the way down to its… — Mira Grant Copy Share
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share
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
