Markus Zusak Quotes

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

It's very hard to be happy when you've lost.

There is no greater misery than false joys.

As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow.

The house of laughter makes a house of woe.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.

There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery

He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail.

HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now. Though I know without a doubt that tomorrow will come saturated with pain. Life is like that. At least my life. And honestly, I cant think of anyone whose life is any different. The price tag for joy is misery. [...]

... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

It is selfishness which is the cause of most of our misery.

This is my history; like all other histories, a narrative of misery.

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows I'm miserable now.

Want is misery.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

It's not been a pleasant life.

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.