Happiness?

"Those who say that life is only a combination of misfortunes mean that life itself is a misfortune. If it is a misfortune, then death is happiness."(McMahon 231)

"I am not romantic, you know; I never was. I ask only a comfortable home; and considering Mr. Collins's character, connection, and situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of happiness with him is as fair as most people can boast on entering the marriage state."(Austen Chapter 22)

Quotes 11/19

"The man within the breast, the abstract and ideal spectator of our sentiments and conduct, requires often to be awakened and put in mind of his duty, by the presence of the real spectator; and it is always from that spectator, from whom we can expect the least sympathy and indulgence, that we are likely to learn the most complete lesson of self-command" (Smith PE 287).

"Attributing states of mind is the default way by which we construct and navigate our social environment, incorrect though our attributions frequently are" (Zunshine 6).

Madness & Melancholy

"Falsly the mortal part we blame
Of our depress'd and ponderous Frame,
Which till the first degrading Sin
Let thee its dull attendant in,..." (Finch 26-30)

"For he is the servant of the Living God duly and daily serving him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For is this done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
For then he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer." (Smart 2-5)

Anger and Frustration Quotes

“But for this epoch we must wait—wait, perhaps, till kings and nobles, enlightened by reason, and, preferring the real dignity of man to childish state throw off their gaudy hereditary trappings: and if then women do not resign the arbitrary power of beauty—they will prove that they have less mind than man.”

Wollstonecraft, 264

“If none with Vengeance yet thy Crimes pursue,

Or give thy manifold Affronts their due;

If Limbs unbroken, Skin without a Stain,

Unwhipt, unblanketed, unkick’d, unslain;

That wtetched little Carcass you retain:…”

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Line 66-70