„Why are we smiling when we loathe each other?’ ‘Why do we sell happiness to the readers of this magazine when we are profoundly unhappy ourselves, the slaves of fame?“

— Paulo Coelho

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„if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„Unhappiness. The distinction that lies in being unhappy (as if to feel happy were a sign of shallowness, lack of ambition, ordinariness) is so great that when someone says, "But how happy you must be!" we usually protest.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche