„I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.“

— Sylvia Plath

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„You figured that the only way I'd be happy is if I did the things you thought would be best for me.“
— Jodi Picoult
„I know I will never be happy but I know I can be gay! Remember I told you Kazan said I was the gayest girl he ever knew and, believe me, he has known many. But he loved me for one year and once rocked me to sleep one night when I was in great anguish. He also suggested that I go into analysis and later wanted me to work with Lee Strasberg. Was it Milton who wrote: "The happy ones were never born?"“
— Marilyn Monroe
„No, I never wish that. I don't intend to die till I've enjoyed my life. Everyone has a right to happiness and sooner or later I will have it. Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them.“
— Louisa May Alcott
„Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean sea.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„it seemed to me that I had never metanother person on earthas discouraging to my happinessas my father.and it appeared that I hadthe same effect uponhim.“
— Charles Bukowski
„After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love, and I was sure this was a very good story although I would not know truly how good until I read it over the next day.“
— Ernest Hemingway