Quotes About Happiness

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness… Live, then and be happy beloved children of my heart and never forget that until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words – wait and hope.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it.

You're not worried about anything, are you? said Danglers. It seems to me everything's going perfectly for you. That's exactly what worries me, replied Dantes. I don't think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.

joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —

I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another.

I'm not proud, but I'm happy, and I think happiness makes a man even blinder than pride.

A man is always in a hurry to be happy.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of living.

Happiness even makes the wicked good.

Celui-la seul qui a eprouve l'extreme infortune est apte a ressentir l'extreme felicite. Il faut avoir voulu mourir pour savoir combien el est bon de vivre.

Youth is a flower of which love is the fruit; happy is he who, after facing watched its silent growth, is permitted to gather and call it his own

il n'y a ni bonheur ne malheur en ce monde, il y a la comparaison d'un etat a un autre, voila tout.

Sólo el que ha experimentado el colmo del infortunio puede sentir la felicidad suprema

Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

what despair to see a woman one loves longing for those thousand nothings from which women compose their happiness, and to be unable to give her those thousand nothings.

Man does not appear to me to be intended to enjoy felicity so unmixed; happiness is like the enchanted palaces we read of in our childhood, where fierce, fiery dragons defend the entrance and approach; and monsters of all shapes and kinds, requiring to be overcome ere victory is ours.

Vivete, dunque, e siate felici, figli adorati del mio cuore, e non dimenticate mai che, sino al giorno in cui Dio si degnerà di svelare all'uomo l'avvenire, l'intera saggezza umana risiederà in queste due parole: Attendere e sperare! Il vostro amico Edmond Dantès Conte di Montecristo