260 quotes found
“Before we set our hearts too much upon anything let us examine how happy they are who already possess it.”
“What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.”
“Nobody's problem is ideal. Nobody has things just as he would like them.”
“Everybody in the world ought to be sorry for everybody else. We all have our little private hell.”
“We are convinced that happiness is never to be found and each believes it possessed by others to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.”
“None think the great unhappy but the great.”
“If every man's internal care Were written on his brow How many would our pity share Who raise our envy now?”
“Misfortunes come to all men.”
“You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.”
“I have been very happy very rich very beautiful much adulated very famous and very unhappy.”
“Great and small suffer the same mishaps.”
“I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind....”
“If I were given a change of life I'd like to see how it would be to live as a mere six-footer.”
“I just want to be an ordinary girl.”
“Money is another pressure. I'm not complaining I'm just saying that there's a certain luxury in having no money. I spent ten years in New York not having it not worrying about it. Suddenly you ha...”
“On the outside one is a star. But in reality one is completely alone doubting everything. To experience this loneliness of soul is the hardest thing in the world.”
“The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure.”
“There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline in some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.”
“Renown is a source of toil and sorrow obscurity is a source of happiness.”
“My crown is called content a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy.”
