I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
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William Saroyan
Is anyone in all the world safe from unhappiness?
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Sophocles
Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.
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H. L. Mencken
The worst sin-perhaps the only sin- passion can commit is to be joyless.
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Dorothy L. Sayers
Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.
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Simone Weil
More Quotes By Bertrand Russell
Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean...
