Lost Happiness Quotes

Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!

But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?

Easter, so longed for, is gone in a day.

He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

And those whom once my song had cheered and gladdened, If still they live, rove through the world now saddened.

When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower

Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?

Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

I was wrong to grow older. Pity. I was so happy as a child.

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!

Married men live longer. Yes. And an indoor cat also lives longer. It's a furball with a broken spirit, that can only look out on a world it can never enjoy. But it does technically live longer.

There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now