Quotes About Happiness

Without the threat of suffering, we can't experience true joy. The best we get is pleasantness.

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Have you sunk into so deep a stupor that you are happy only in your unhappiness? - Anywhere, Out of this World

Do you know that high fever which invades us in our cold suffering, that aching for a land we do not know, that anguish of curiosity? There is a country which resembles you, where everything is beautiful, sumptuous, authentic, still, where fantasy has built and adorned a western China, where life is sweet to breathe, where happiness is wed to silence. That is where to live, that is where to die! - Invitation to a Voyage

Work makes prosperous days, wine makes happy Sundays. - Wine and Hashish

Les amants des prostituées Sont heureux, dispos et repus; Quant à moi, mes bras sont rompus Pour avoir étreint des nuées.

I sing of calamitous dogs, those that wander among the winding ravines of great cities, or those whose sparkling, winning eyes have asked some misfit: Take me with you, and our combined wretchedness might make some sort of happiness!

belki de mutluluÄŸu hak etmiÅŸ olanlar, tam da fanilerin anlad??? anlamda mutluluk fikrinin onlar üzerinde kusturucu bir etki yapt??? kiÅŸilerdir.

De ahí que Stendhal, un espíritu impertinente, burlón, incluso odioso, se acercara más que muchos otros a la verdad al decir que «Lo bello no es sino la promesa de la felicidad». Sin duda esta definición sobrepasa su objetivo; somete lo bello al ideal infinitamente variable de la felicidad; despoja con excesiva ligereza lo bello de su carácter aristocrático; pero tiene el gran mérito de alejarse decididamente del error de los académicos.

We don't even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness.

It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile? and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw

it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

be it peace or happiness let it enfold you

like the fox I run with the hunted and if I'm not the happiest man on earth I'm surely the luckiest man alive.

and we are in bed together laughing and we don't care about anything.

as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday.

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.

about our argument tonight whatever it was about and no matter how unhappy it made us feel remember that there is a cat somewhere adjusting to the space of itself with a delightful wonderment of easiness. in other words magic persists without us no matter what we do against it.