“ At some point in the night she had a dream. Or it was possible that she was partially awake, and was only remembering a dream? She was alone among the rocks on a dark coast beside the sea. The water s… Paul Bowles
“ Men who give up the common goal of all things that exist, thereby cease to exist themselves. Some may perhaps think it strange that we say that wicked men, who form the majority of men, do not exist;… Boethius
“ Heureux sont ceux qui peuvent aimer et haïr sans feinte, sans détour, sans nuance. Irène Némirovsky
“ ... but happiness is to joy as an electric light bulb is to the sun. Happiness always has an object, you're happy because of something, it's a condition whose existence depends on external things. Joy… Susanna Tamaro
“ As we drove off into the moonless night, raindrops danced through our headlights like the fireflies of my childhood. I silently cursed the frailty of happiness and doubted whether it ever existed for… Scott Gaille
“ ...[A] certain degree of un-understanding (not mis-, but un-) is the only possible sanctuary which one human being can offer to another in the midst of the devastating intimacy of a happy marriage. Jan Struther
“ I hate you. I wish you was dead."Mrs. Carey gasped. He said the words so savagely that it gave her quite a start. She had nothing to say. She sat down in her husband's chair; and as she thought of her… W. Somerset Maugham
“ Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation. Wilhelm von Humboldt
“ I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Ca… Emma Goldman
“ O seasons, O castles,What soul is without flaws?All its lore is known to me,Felicity, it enchants us all. Arthur Rimbaud
“ When you are in a room with Kurtis, whether its one or a hundred he is the only person that matters. Dee Remy
“ The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings. The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes yo… Jean Webster
“ What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed. Albert Camus
“ Percy wakes me (fourteen)Percy wakes me and I am not ready.He has slept all night under the covers.Now he’s eager for action: a walk, then breakfast.So I hasten up. He is sitting on the kitchen counte… Mary Oliver
