Yet I had become very attached to George Roc. I liked him, not for the joy of playing with him, not for some talent that made him stand out from the rest, not even for his kindness: above all, I liked...
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
Have you sunk into so deep a stupor that you are happy only in your unhappiness?-
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story fo...
For, thought Ahab, while even the highest earthly felicities ever have a certain unsignifying pettiness lurking in them, but, at bottom, all heartwoes, a mystic significance, and, in some men, an arch...
Happiness requires the ultimate sacrifice: to give up one's unhappiness.
People first make unhappy, then say stay happy.
Sadness is a state of sin.
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person.
I believe our clever young man has intuited that while only the pursuit of happiness is promised to all Americans, unhappiness is guaranteed for many.
My unhappiness precluded all else; unhappiness is a kind of narcissism, in which nothing that does not resonate with your unhappiness can interest you.
He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things we...
Most of the times, reason for unhappiness is desiring for the things which are far from fulfilling our expectations.
To sacrifice one's unhappiness for a good cause is something I fervently believe in.
I felt like I was some kind of primitive spring-loaded machine, placed under far more tension than it had ever been built to sustain, about to blast apart at great danger to anyone standing nearby. I...
Unhappiness is complicated and has many different causes, but happiness is simple and has only one reason.
That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegor...
No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us hap...
He stared to sea. I gave up all ideas of practicing medicine. In spite of what I have just said about the wave and the water, in those years in France I am afraid I lived a selfish life. That is, I of...