Quotes About Happiness

Had it really been so wonderful? I knew very well that at that time, too, there had been shame. And uneasiness, and humiliation, and disgust: accept, submit, force yourself. Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

Women without love lose the light in their eyes, women without love die while they are still alive.

She's lucky to be so loved, to love. Lucky to be adored for what she is and for what she invents. Now that she's given her brother what he wanted, now that she's taken him out of danger, surely she'll invent something else. So I don't want to lose sight of her. Something will happen.

I would have the small happinesses of the unmarried girl in glasses who spends her life studying: a walk, being taken by the hand.

We told each other everything, even the little things, and were happy.

Se non c'e' amore, non solo inaridisce la vita delle persone, ma anche quella delle citta

the furies who indulge the happiness of today to feed the violence of tomorrow.

deprimidos no escriben libros. Los escriben las personas contentas, que viajan, que están enamoradas y que hablan, y hablan con la convicción de que de un modo u otro las palabras acaben siempre en el lugar correcto.

Es posible que incluso los momentos felices del placer no resistan nunca un examen riguroso?

Se non c'è amore, non solo inaridisce la vita delle persone, ma anche quella delle città

I became anxious if I lost him, I was happy when I saw him return. In other words I loved him and new it and was content to love him.

I became anxious if I lost him, I was happy when I saw him return. In other words I loved him and knew it and was content to love him.

Ich kam mir verrückt vor, leichtsinnig, aber ich war froh darüber. Ein Teil von mir war es leid, immer die Vernünftige zu spielen.

The depressed don't write books. People who are happy write, people who travel, are in love, and talk and talk with the conviction that, one way or another, their words always go to the right place.

The relationship between money and the possession of things had disappointed her.

Bref je l'aimais, j'en était consciente et j'était heureuse de l'aimer.

Don't get angry, she said, try to reflect: what does a woman of your understanding feel at the idea that her happiness becomes the ruin of someone else?

You're not happy to be getting married?" I ventured. He looked out the window: there was lightning and thunder but still no rain. He said: "I was fine the way I was.

Experimentei algo que depois, ao longo de minha vida, se repetiu frequentemente: a alegria do novo

he must have read in my face that it was a happy moment. For months I had been grinding away, feeling alone, ugly.

y a veces, al notarla tan feliz, me asaltó una nostalgia genuina por un tiempo que, no obstante, consideraba pasado para siempre y mal desenterrado por su fantasía en exceso afectuosa.

Será possível que nem os momentos felizes de prazer resistam a um exame rigoroso?

Deja que nos hagamos ricos sin complicarnos la vida, que ya de por sí es bastante complicada.

Lila was happy, and she was drawing me deeper and deeper into her fierce happiness, because she had suddenly found, perhaps without even realizing it, an opportunity that allowed her to portray the fury she directed against herself, the insurgence, perhaps for the first time in her life, of the need - and here the verb used by Michele was appropriate - to erase herself.