Quote by Viktor E. Frankl

“I begin to realise that - wonderful as it was, happy as we were - we can never go back.”

— North and South Elizabeth Gaskell

“They were always so pleased to see me, and the happiness it brought me was always tinged with regret, because how much longer would…

— Sarah Stovell

“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

“We were bullied, broken, built up, bronzed and polished. We grew dull, dusty, doubtful, dark, and forgetful. Yet we still know that we can…

— Antonia Perdu

“Joy recollected is indeed no longer the emotion itself.”

— Adam McOmber

“We often behave in ways that are guaranteed to make us unhappy.”

— Sam Harris

“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

“Whatever the internal mechanism that moderated the human capacity for joy, mine had long been broken beyond repair. And I knew this was a…

— Alexis Hall

“How were we to know we were happy?”

— Margaret Atwood

“There was no comfort in happy memories; they just made it all seem worse.”

— Adriana Trigiani

“... I had to learn how to be cheerful in the face of adversity”

— Robyn Davidson

“I wasn't prepared for the intensity of it.It was like going from blissful emptiness to experiencing a roller coaster of sensations all at once.”

— Alexandra Adornetto