“The hell with it. Who never knew
the price of happiness will not be happy.”
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1932–2017) Russian poet, film director, teacher
"Lies" (1952), line 11; Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi (trans.) Selected Poems (London: Penguin, 2008) p. 52.
Henry Edward Manning (1808–1892) English Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal
Source: Towards Evening (1889), p. 34
Douglas Coupland (1961) Canadian novelist, short story writer, playwright, and graphic designer
Generation X (1991)
“He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.”
Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged
Source: Atlas Shrugged
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
Variant: Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …
"Introduction" in The Best of Isaac Asimov (1973)
General sources
Context: !-- I must admit the title of this book gives me pause. Who says the enclosed stories are my ‘best’? Do I? Does the editor? Or some critic? Some reader? A general vote among the entire population of the world?
And whoever says it — can it be so? --> Can the word ‘best’ mean anything at all, except to some particular person in some particular mood? Perhaps not — so if we allow the word to stand as an absolute, you, or you, or perhaps you, may be appalled at omissions or inclusions or, never having read me before, may even be impelled to cry out, ‘Good heavens, are those his best?
“Nobody wants to live with a person who'll never be happy.”
François Lelord book Hector and the Search for Happiness
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
Françoise Sagan (1935–2004) French writer
Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1969, Sunlight on Cold Water, translated 1971)
