Happiness Quotes (4028 Quotes)
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- I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and smiling faces.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- Oh, do not scowl at me, reader, I do not intend to convey the impression that I did not manage to be happy.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country.
(Voltaire, "Candide")
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- My purpose, my whole life, had been to love him and be with him, to make him happy. I didn't want to cause any unhappiness now-in that way, I decided it was probably better than he wasn't here to see this, though I missed him so much at that moment the ache of it was as bad as the strange pains in my belly.
(W. Bruce Cameron, "A Dog's Purpose")
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- It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
(W. Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage")
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- That time we separated was my idea. I thought, well, I'm fifty years old and there might be someone else out there. People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
(Wally Lamb, "She's Come Undone")
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- Charming Alnaschar visions! It is the happy privilege of youth to construct you, and many a fanciful creature besides Rebecca Sharp has indulged in these delightful daydreams ere now!
(William Makepeace Thackeray, "Vanity Fair")
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- Can there be any happiness greater than the happiness of salvation?
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.
(Yann Martel, "Life of Pi")
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- And happiness.. what is it, after all? Desires are a torment, aren't they? And it's clear that happiness is when there are no longer any desires, not even one... What a mistake, what a stupid prejudice it's been all these years to put a plus sign in front of happiness. Absolute happiness should of course have a minus sign, a divine minus.
(Yevgeny Zamyatin, "We")
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- And happiness...Well, after all, desires torment us, don't they? And, clearly, happiness is when there are no more desires, not one...What a mistake, what ridiculous prejudice it's been to have marked happiness always with a plus sign. Absolute happiness should, of course, carry a minus sign - the divine minus.
(Yevgeny Zamyatin, "We")
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- The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake -- let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- We are never done with conscience. Choose your course by it, Brutus; Choose your course by it, Cato. It is bottomless, being God. We cast in to this pit the labor of our whole lives, we cast in our liberty or our country, we cast in our well-being, we cast in our repose, we cast in our happiness. More! more! more! Empty the vase! turn out the urn! We must at last cast in our heart.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- Without knowing it, Javert in his awful happiness was deserving of pity, like every ignorant man who triumphs. Nothing could have been more poignant or more heartrending than that countenance on which was inscribed all the evil in what is good.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Misérables")
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- Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.
(Viktor E. Frankl, "Man's Search for Meaning")
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