past happiness Quotes

Never go back to a place where you have been happy. Until you do it remains alive for you. If you go back it will be destroyed.

Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come.

For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy

The only possible paradises are those we have lost

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.

The thought of the weekends I used to have now makes me shake.

My grief lies onward, and my joy behind.

Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the lost pleasure of books. It is not a yearning that one ever expects to be fulfilled.

... 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.)

Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.

Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.

Ah me, but where are now the songs I sang When life was sweet because you call’d them sweet?

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

I was happier then. Or was that I? Or am I now I? Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand. Would you go back to then? Just beginning then. Would you?

Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.

In every kind of adversity, the bitterest part of a man's affliction is to remember that he once was happy.

Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

And often, glad no more, We wear a face of joy because We have been glad of yore.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.