Afraid Of Happiness Quotes

#1. No one has arrived. Leave me there
as you would leave a myth with any person who sees you
until he cries and rushes into himself, afraid of happiness.

Mahmoud Darwish

#2. It's not normal to be afraid of happiness, but I've learned over time that for each day of happy I get five of not so much.

Jordan Silver

#3. In her life, moments of happiness were only gaps between mass catastrophes. She was now afraid of happiness.

Liu Cixin

#4. He looked so happy and I wondered about that, his capacity for happiness. Where did that come from? Did I have that kind of happiness inside me? Was I just afraid of it?

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#5. It is not the rich man you should properly call happy,
but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods,
to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death,
and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

Horace

#6. Let us never be afraid of innocent joy; God is good and what he does is well done; resign yourself to everything, even happiness; ask for the spirit of sacrifice, of detachment, of renunciation, and above all, for the spirit of joy and gratitude.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#7. From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year ... death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.

Graham Greene

#8. The root of things, what they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.

Virginia Woolf

#9. I've never been afraid of them. Not once. Because I had you.

Nicholas Sparks

#10. The way to fight fear is to do what you are afraid of. And the way to fight pain is to live with it, with an open heart.

Auliq Ice

#11. Courage - that's the secret! If only people who are in love weren't always so afraid of risking their happiness by looking it in the eyes.

Edith Wharton

#12. The moment you know your real being, you are afraid of nothing. Death gives freedom and power. To be free in the world, you must die to the world. Then the universe is your own, it becomes your body, an expression and a tool. The happiness of being absolutely free is beyond description.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#13. Silence embeds thoughts better than speeches. If you are afraid of silence, you are afraid of your thoughts.

Rossana Condoleo

#14. Don't give up the search for happiness because you're afraid of getting hurt.

Martha Raye

#15. Sometimes loving each other isn't enough. You have to be responsible for your own happiness. You can't stay in a relationship because you're afraid of the unknown.

Sarah Silverman

#16. 5 steps to happiness: Don't speak badly about yourself. Trust your instincts. Let go of what you can't control. Don't be afraid to say no. Don't be afraid to say yes.

Karen Salmansohn

#17. I was afraid that I'd forgotten all the colors of the rainbow, but I know just where I can find them again.

Megan Shepherd

#18. Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.

Julian Gough

#19. They say the road to happiness is a long one, but I was afraid I'd run out of gas before I arrived.

Tina DeCoux

#20. Everyone is so afraid of death, but the real sufis just laugh: nothing tyrannizes their hearts. What strikes the oyster shell does not damage the pearl

Rumi

#21. Be not afraid of adventure. Life is an adventure full of wonder.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Most people are afraid of suffering. But suffering is a kind of mud to help the lotus flower of happiness grow. There can be no lotus flower without the mud. - THICH NHAT HANH

Thich Nhat Hanh

#23. And I'll look back at him because I shan't be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid of death, about all music I've ever loved, and every time I've been happy.

Jean Rhys

#24. Don't look back with tears, look forward with joy; and grab every bit of happiness you can. Don't waste your life being afraid to try new things, and don't be afraid of rejection, be afraid of rejecting what you know is right, in your heart.

Pippa Franks

#25. A man with courage has fear but he isn't afraid of fear and he knows how to deal with it.

Debasish Mridha

#26. Be not afraid of fear! Fear is a perception,
not a reality; it resides in imagination.

Debasish Mridha

#27. I am drunk with love and afraid of nothing.
I am melting like happiness, enjoying everything.

Debasish Mridha

#28. Its ok to be afraid to fall in love, because without being afraid of it you won,t find the happiness of being loved

Premjit Lourembam

#29. She sat by the side of the road, in the snow, all bodiless and afraid, waiting for the happiness to start.

Neil Gaiman

#30. I wanted to hold happiness in reserve, like a bottle of champagne. I postponed it because I was afraid, because I overvalued it, and then I didn't want to use it up, because what do you wish for then?

Curtis Sittenfeld

#31. There's nothing on earth like the feel of someone who loves you grasping your hand in the dark when you're lost and afraid

Mia Sheridan

#32. Right on the other side of our fears resides hope and happiness. We get stuck in our lives afraid to walk over there when it's a much kinder place.

Ron Baratono

#33. Those times, against all expectations, were turning out to be good times. Then he felt afraid, because he knew they couldn't last long and those stolen drops of happiness and peace would evaporate.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#34. Don't be afraid to have goals and dreams. Even in the face of haters and those who do not believe in you, don't stop dreaming.

Auliq Ice

#35. The reason a person viciously strikes out against you is because they are afraid of you or what you represent, or are resentful of your happiness.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#36. We sat talking on a rock. The air was filled with the tang of sea-weed and of something else that could only have been the ocean smell. I felt so happy that I wasn't even afraid it wouldn't last.

Tove Jansson