"Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates." ― Jean de la Bruyere Topic(s): Happiness More From Jean de la Bruyere "They that have lived a single day have lived an age." "It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues." "The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love." More In Happiness "Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building after seeing Italy."― Fanny Burney "There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."― William Hazlitt "You find happiness where you find it."― Anna Paquin