“Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?”

“Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.”

“I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.”

“Melancholy is the happiness of being sad.”

“There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”

“The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.”

“Birds sing even when the world is filled with sadness. I don't know why people can't do the same thing.”

“I am both happy and sad at the same time, and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.”

“Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)”

“Tatiana: "Why did we spend two days fighting when we could have been doing this?"
Alexander: "That wasn't fighting, Tatiana. That was foreplay.”