Home » Quote » Charles Bukowski » „We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.“ „We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.“ — Charles Bukowski Tags:HappinessPain Related quotes „Sometimes the key to happiness is just expecting a little bit less“ — Jodi Picoult „It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.“ — Chuck Palahniuk „So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.“ — F. Scott Fitzgerald „She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness…“ — Ayn Rand „… the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.“ — Fernando Pessoa „It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.“ — Henry Miller