happiness Quotes

“It is a terrible thing to be happy! How content one is! How all-sufficient one finds it! How, being in possession of the false object of life, happiness, one forgets the true object, duty!”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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“It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise!”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

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“The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

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“The more you know the more unhappy you are.”

― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“If, for example, you come at four o'clock in the afternoon, then at three o'clock I shall begin to be happy.”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

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“There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery, and that thy Teacher knows.”

― Dante Alighieri, Divine Comedy

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“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

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“beauty is the promise of happiness.”

― Marcel Proust, The Prisoner

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“There's only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“Happiness . . . must be something solid and permanent, without fear and without uncertainty.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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