Quotogeny

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Quotes about happiness

  1. My God, a whole moment of happiness! Is that too little for the whole of a man's life?

    GenuineFyodor DostoevskyWhite Nights"Morning" (the last section)

  2. It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

    GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe IdiotPart 4, chapter 5Ippolit Terentyev

  3. Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

    GenuineFyodor DostoevskyA Writer's DiaryJanuary 1876, chapter 3, section 2 ("Spiritualism. Something about devils. The extraordinary cunning of devils, if only they are devils")

  4. I have seen the truth; I have seen and I know that people can be beautiful and happy without losing the power of living on earth. I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.

    GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe Dream of a Ridiculous ManChapter 5The ridiculous man

  5. It's life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all.

    GenuineFyodor DostoevskyThe IdiotPart 3, chapter 5 ("My Necessary Explanation")Ippolit Terentyev

  6. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.

    GenuineFyodor DostoevskyLettersLetter to his brother Mikhail, 22 December 1849Fyodor Dostoevsky, aged twenty-eight

  7. Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness.

    GenuineFyodor DostoevskyNotes from UndergroundPart 2 ("À Propos of the Wet Snow"), chapter 6The Underground Man, the unnamed narrator

  8. Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. It's only that.

    GenuineFyodor DostoevskyDemonsPart 2, chapter 1 ("Night"), section 5Kirillov