Happiness Quotes (4028 Quotes)
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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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- 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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- I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.
(Truman Capote, "Breakfast at Tiffany's")
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- We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the books, at every title he discovered he let out exclamations of happiness, either because he knew the work, or because he had been seeking it for a long time, or finally because he had never heard it mentioned and was highly excited and titillated. In short, for him every book was like a fabulous animal that he was meeting in a strange land.
(Umberto Eco, "The Name of the Rose")
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- The goal of my life isn't just... to be happy.
(Veronica Roth, "Divergent")
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- If we wish to be happy, monsieur, we must never comprehend duty; for, as soon as we comprehend it, it is implacable. One would say that it punishes you for comprehending it; but no, it rewards you for it; for it puts you into a hell where you feel God at your side.
(Victor Hugo, "Les Miserables")
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