Happiness Quote by Robert Reeves

“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

“They were happy times, although we did not know it then. We never know happiness until it is gone.”

— Judith Arnopp

“People just want to be happy, she thought.”

— Elizabeth Brundage

“It is a kind of happiness to know just how unhappy we could be.”

— La Rochefoucauld

“How were we to know we were happy?”

— Margaret Atwood

“they were happy I was choosing to be happy because they could tell I was unhappy.”

— Charles Benedict

“Happiness was waiting to be chosen.”

— Pearl S. Buck

“Still, for all that everybody, while not happy, is not unhappy about it. And so they go on.”

— Alan Bennett

“What they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Perhaps it was not an easy thing, to be so entirely happy. Perhaps it was actually quite a fearful state to live in--the knowledge…

— Jo Baker

“If they knew that they are happy, they would be happy.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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

— Samuel Beckett