Calamity Quote by Samuel Richardson

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive…

— Samuel Johnson

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

— Albert Camus

“Is it possible to be happy before anything happens, before one’s desires are gratified, in spite of life’s difficulties, in the very midst of…

— Sam Harris

One becomes gradually accustomed to a new realization of the nature of 'happiness': one has to assume happiness when Fate does not carry out…

— Sigmund Freud

A lot of people say there is no happiness in this life and certainly there's no permanent happiness. But self-sufficiency creates happiness.

— Bob Dylan

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that…

— Seneca the Younger

The more there is happiness at the starting of human life, the more there is pain at the end..Mak_786

— Mak_786

It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness…

— Samuel Johnson

When happiness is happening it feels as if nothing else happened before it, it is a sensation that happens only in the present tense.

— Deborah Levy

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Sadness is inevitable. But happiness was never guaranteed.

— Naseem C Khan

Divine happiness, even the tiniest particle of a grain of it, never leaves one again; and when one attains to the essence of things…

— Anandamayi Ma