“Must it ever be thus,—that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery?”

― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

topic:happiness misery

QuoteImageAI

To create a beautiful custom image, click the button below to use it online for free

Free To Use Download Image

“Either thou or I, or both, must go with him.”

― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do. I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing.”

― Ronald Reagan, Inaugural Address

“They also serve who only stand and wait.”

― Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Over the Teacups

“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, But Lust's effect is tempest after sun;”

― William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis

“Don’t ask the barber whether you need a haircut.”

― Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett

“When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.”

― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat.”

― Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book

“Of so little weight are the greatest services to princes, when put into the balance with a refusal to gratify their passions.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

“That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything?”

― Woody Allen, Getting Even

“It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

Recommended Topics

doubt judgement sorrow fate history independence care responsibility cowardice will waiting control romance killing kindness adventure violence need patience democracy

© Copyright 2025 QuoteImageAI