Franz Kafka Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Suicide Quotes

If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that it shall make us happy? Good God, we should also be happy if we had no books, and such books as make us happy we could, if need be, write ourselves. But what we must have are those books which come upon us like ill fortune, and distress us deeply, like the death of one we love better than ourselves; like suicide. A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us.

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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

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It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried.

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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

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Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

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We needs must love the highest when we see it.

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In our lives, change is unavoidable, loss is unavoidable. In the adaptability and ease with which we experience change, lies our happiness and freedom.

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The search for happiness ... always ends in the ghastly sense of the bottomless nothingness into which you will inevitably fall if you strain any further.

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Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?

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I know what happiness is, for I have done good work.

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To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to master them - This is called profound and secret virtue.

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The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

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Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

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How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?

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Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

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We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure, by being ready to sympathize with their notions and feelings, instead of forcing them to sympathize with ours.

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