Affect Quote by Thomas Hobbes

“Sitting here, and thus, she had attained to a state which she could never have desired, not even conceived. And being so unforeseen, so…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“Sometimes Felicity is as much a mystery to me as the location of the Temple. She is spiteful and childish one minute, lively and…

— Libba Bray

“Gaiety can be found in making others happy. The true felicity is an inner quality. A state and peace of mind!”

— Jyoti Patel

The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims…

— Marquis de Sade

“Felicity, felicity - how shall I say it? - is quaffed out of a golden cup in every latitude: the flavour is with you…

— Joseph Conrad

“Anne could do no more; but her heart prophesied some mischance to damp the perfection of her felicity.”

— Jane Austen

For Pleasure, Delight, Peace and Felicity live in method and temperance.

— Margaret Cavendish

If you yearn for holy felicity, shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts.

— Rumi

“Any human companionship, even the dearest and most perfect, would have been alien to her then. She was sufficient unto herself, needing not love…

— L.M. Montgomery

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes, and seeing them…

— Samuel Johnson

Good sense tells us that earthly things are rare and fleeting, and that true reality exists only in dreams. To draw sustenance from happiness-…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Sometimes he hoped that she would die, painlessly, in some accident, she who was out of doors in the streets, crossing busy thoroughfares, from…

— Marcel Proust