Abyss Quote by Yukio Mishima

“I suddenly wondered whether Mother might not actually be happy now, whether the sensation of happiness might not be something like faintly glittering gold…

— Osamu Dazai

I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind, and changed its bright visions of extensive…

— Anonymous

“There is much that I could say about the happy and tender incidents in my childhood days, the sense of security which I enjoyed…

— Hermann Hesse

“Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find…

— Laini Taylor

Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was…

— Mati Unt

“Unhappy is he to whom the memories of childhood bring only fear and sadness. Wretched is he who looks back upon lone hours in…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“It is almost impossible to describe happiness,because at the time it feels entirely natural as if all the r est of your life has…

— Margaret George

“Though parted from all his soul held dear, and though often yearning for what lay beyond, still was he never positively and consciously miserable;…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Such are contrasts we see every day in the world. Joy and Sorrow! But Joy is an exile from Heaven who does not remain…

— Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga

I was not always free from melancholy; but even melancholy had its charms.

— Madame Roland

“An abyss of fortune or of temperament sundered him from them. His mind seemed older than theirs: it shone coldly on their strifes and…

— James Joyce

“Even when acceptance is achieved and a degree of happiness attained, joy often remains elusive forever, like a promise of water in a dry…

— Dean Koontz