happiness Quotes

“You should pass us by and forgive us our happiness”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

topic:happiness forgiveness

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

― Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness

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“When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering...”

― George Orwell, 1984

topic:happiness politics

“For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering?”

― Albert Camus, The Plague

topic:happiness suffering eternity

“I felt my lungs inflate with the inrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, 'This is what it is to be happy.'”

― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

topic:happiness nature

“It is not happiness, but suffering that we consider unnatural. It is not success, but calamity that we regard as the abnormal exception in human life.”

― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

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“Nothing is more idle than to inquire after happiness which Nature has kindly placed within our reach.”

― Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas

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“the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

topic:happiness risk

“Sometimes there is no happy choice, Sam, only one less grievous than the others.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

topic:happiness choice grief

“A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!”

― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

topic:happiness courage faith

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