Quotes About Emotions

You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage.

Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.

When you're in love, you're so happy that you want to tell people about it. But now I have to censor myself. You need to protect the happiness you have.

If artists and poets are unhappy, it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.

Happiness is a vine that takes root and grows within the heart, never outside it.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

I think and think and think, I've thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.

we are human beings, we are born full of guilt; we feel terrified when happiness becomes a real possibility.

The days that make us happy make us wise

Happiness is a question of attitude, not a question of what's happening out there.

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive.

One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

This idea of perpetual happiness is crazy and overrated, because those dark moments fuel you for the next bright moments; each one helps you appreciate the other.

Every day you have to choose and cultivate your own happiness.

I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them.

Maybe happiness was an hourglass already running out, the grains tipping, sifting past each other. Maybe it was a state of mind.

When we numb [hard feelings], we numb joy, we numb gratitude, we numb happiness.