“Everything was lost except happiness.”
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Jacques Prevért 12
French poet, screenwriter 1900–1977Related quotes
“All of us lost something. Some of us lost everything.”
Source: The Lost Herondale
“All will be lost apart from happiness.”
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“Happiness is lost by criticizing it; sorrow by accepting it.”
Source: Epigrams, p. 371
“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
Source: Barchester Towers (1857), Ch. 27
“We haven’t lost everything, if we haven’t lost our hope.”
Variant: We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope.
Source: PS, I Love You
“If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.”
Journal entry (2 March 1861), Ch. 5 : The Beginning of the War.
Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)
Context: I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
“Everything can be inherited except sterility.”
Source: The Red Queen (1993), Ch. 1. Human Nature