Happiness Quote by Will Self

“The enchantment of that bright, sad, pretty place enveloped her and she found that, against all her expectations, she was happy there.”

— Angela Carter

“She'd spoken of their happiness as though it were an undeniable fact, no matter what happened--apart from everything else and not subject to it.…

— Laini Taylor

“I mourned, hands clenched, before that mound. For the piercing cold of grief had caught Me in the doleful dread and bound My heart,…

— Anonymous

“Happiness was still on the other side of a glass door, but at least she could see it through the glass, like a prisoner…

— Jeanette Winterson

“She knew her heart of gold was something her stepmother and stepsisters could never take away, and that alone gave her joy on the…

— Chris Colfer

Her theme was happiness: what it was; what it was not; where we might find it, where not; and how, if found, it must…

— Mary Lavin

I sighed. "What is life but fleeting moments of happiness strung together on necklace of despair?

— Marian Keyes

“Did she not have it all, the beauty, the brains, the breeding, the brilliant marriage? Yet I felt a tangible sadness lurking within…”

— Tatiana de Rosnay

“the sorrow she carried around that made her smile come a second too late and made her ears grow dull so that her children…

— Marisa Silver

“There was no more happiness. But under the misery, there was hope. That the name brimstone had given her was more than a whim.…

— Laini Taylor

“Yesterday's rain had left a bitter, springlike smell in the air; the vehemence that beat against her in the street and hummed above her…

— Willa Cather

“Very gently and quietly, almost as if it were the blood singing in her veins, or the water of the stream running over stones,…

— Virginia Woolf