Unattainable Happiness Quotes

#1. That alien, unreachable, unattainable happiness, I could not destroy; I had built half of it.

Joan Reginaldo

#2. I may have spent long enough in your orbit to have absorbed your ferocious conviction that a happy family cannot be a mere myth or that even if it is, better to die trying for the fine if unattainable than sulking in passive, cynical resignation that hell is other people you're related to.

Lionel Shriver

#3. Never agree to marry a man because he has potential. Men are not houses, they do not make good fixer-uppers.

Jill Shalvis

#4. I was very unhappy about being killed off on 'Supernatural' in season 7.

Jim Beaver

#5. When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.

Charles De Lint

#6. How had I not noticed her there before? She stuck out like a whore in church. Except in this case it was the direct opposite. She stuck out like an angel in hell.

Tabatha Vargo

#7. The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

W. H. Auden

#8. If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.

Olin Miller

#9. Anything done without character can only end in catastrophe.

Bidemi Mark-Mordi

#10. He who hath two coats, let him impart to him that hath none.

Lancelot Andrewes

#11. Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had abandoned all hope of ever enjoying?

Marcel Proust

#12. We have to recognize that spirituality is a legitimate dimension in the psyche. It's a legitimate dimension in the universal scheme of things. It doesn't mean that you are superstitious, that you are in to magical, primitive thinking, if you take spirituality seriously.

Stanislav Grof

#13. His eyes were of a bright, hard blue. His nose was somewhat pointed and there was never any doubt at whom he was looking or talking - and this is a flattering attention, for who looks at us? - glances fall upon us, curious or disinterested, nothing more.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#14. No one rises above who he or she has been without first having fallen down. The best time - in fact, the only time - to make a real change in your life is in the moment of seeing the need for it. He who hesitates always gets lost in the hundred reasons why tomorrow is a better day to get started.

Guy Finley

#15. I now believe that fears are not born of darkness; rather, fears are like the stars
always there, but obscured by the glare of daylight.

Irvin D. Yalom