A Quote by Marcel Proust

I should have been happy: I wasn’t.

Marcel Proust

Quote Topics

Been Happy Should Should Have Should Have Been

Quote Author

Marcel Proust
French - Novelist
July 10, 1871 - November 18, 1922

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Be happy. Decide to be happy. If you want to be happy, be happy! No one cares if you're happy or not, so why wait for permission? And did it really matter if you had been deeply unhappy in your past? Who but you remembered that?

Amity Gaige

…I realized my happiness was artificial. I felt happy because I saw the others were happy and because I knew I should feel happy, but I wasn't really happy.

Roberto Bolano

I do not believe that Darren Wilson should've been charged, but Brown should not have lost his life. Brown and Trayvon Martin should've gotten their butts kicked badly. They should've been handled physically, but they should not have been killed.

Niger Innis

I have always been happy. Even if I had been more honest with regard to myself at that moment I should still have written La Nausee.

Jean-Paul Sartre

I was getting mad at the system or the politicians or the government, and then I realized someone should talk about this stuff, and I have a big, multinational global-youth platform of kids who are going to change the world. So I was like, "I should be doing that. I should be showing this to people. That's my job." And since that time, I've been very happy.

Shane Smith

I was jealous of colleagues when I should have been happy for them. I decided to save my energy. If you think they are great works, you should buy them.

Maurizio Cattelan

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

Immanuel Kant

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Immanuel Kant

Every parent just wants their child to be happy and to protect them. I should be the happiest I have ever been with my career, family and friends, but I can honestly say I am never happy in myself now. I constantly worry about them.

Paddy McGuinness

Success has got nothing to do with being happy. I've been very rich, and been unhappy, and I've been very poor, and been happy.

Tricky

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?

William Makepeace Thackeray

I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated because management and fighters take advantage of fighters.

Larry Holmes

There have been many races in the past that I have won and not been happy, and other times when I finished maybe eighth but was really happy with my driving.