“We're not meant for happiness, you and I.”

“I wonder ... when it was that the world first went amiss, and men forgot how to live and to love and to be happy.”

“He was young and ardent in a hundred happy ways.”

“Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.”

“She knew that this was happiness, this was living as she had always wished to live.”

“My realisation that all I had ever done in life, not only in France but in England also, was to watch people, never to partake in their happiness or pain, brought such a sense of overwhelming depression, deepened by the rain stinging the windows of the car, that when I came to Le Mans, although I had not intended to stop there and lunch, I changed my mind, hoping to change my mood.”

“I might say that we have paid for freedom. But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and security. Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind of course we have on moments of depression; but there are other moments too, when time, unmeasured by the clock, runs on into eternity.”