Sentence examples similar to terrible happiness from inspiring English sources

Yet it was a terrible, fragile happiness, amid so much horror.

The Mekong River itself, the site of happiness and terrible loss, takes on the weight of character here.

I lost my motivation and, I know this sounds terrible, but I felt happiness after losing to Rogan because it meant I could get out of my contract.

His enthusiastic pleasure in the task falters when he speaks of Jenny's happiness, and the terrible pity of his wife's incapacity leaves him choking for words.

Alice Bell is a dystopian fairytale about a woman seeking happiness in a terrible world; Daniel Hit By A Train is inspired by the Victorian memorial to heroic acts in London's Postman's Park; and The Festival is a love story about bringing music to a silent world.

Since the Great Recession hunger has been at record levels and taken a terrible toll on the health, happiness, and educational performance of millions of our children.

Happiness was gone". Another terrible legacy of Katrina are self-raised children.

As with Cimino's The Deer Hunter, Heaven's Gate is partly about the terrible pathos in contrasting war with remembered happiness on the homefront.

In "Stumbling on Happiness," Daniel Gilbert writes about how terrible we all are at judging our own happiness as well as anyone else's -- referencing research which shows, for example, that losing a limb only decreases people's happiness temporarily while those of us with all our limbs assume it makes them miserable for the rest of their lives.

The most important thing is not to think that your life is terrible and that you'll only find happiness once you achieve your dream.

I am intrigued by the idea that happiness can be a memorial of terrible deeds.