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Quotations about Happiness

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Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
The Life of Reason, Vol. 1 (1905)
Literature > George Santayana


Don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he ever wanted. He lived happily ever after.
Literature > Roald Dahl > Charlie and the Chocolate Factory


When I lived in Porpoise Spit, I used to sit in my room for hours and listen to ABBA songs. But since I've met you and moved to Sydney, I haven't listened to one Abba song. That's because my life is as good as an Abba song. It's as good as Dancing Queen.
Movies > Muriel's Wedding


Alec: Cold?
Laura: No, not really.
Alec: Happy?
Laura: No, not really.
Movies > Brief Encounter


Veronica: If you were happy every day of your life, you wouldn't be a human being, you'd be a game show host.
Movies > Heathers


Mr. Emerson: Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
Movies > A Room with a View

Willy Wonka: (singing) If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. Anything you want to, do it. Want to change the world? There's nothing to it.
Movies > Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory


Willy Wonka: And Charlie, don't forget what happened to the man who suddenly got everything he'd ever wished for.
Charlie: What happened?
Willy Wonka: He lived happily ever after.
Movies > Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory


Angela Chase: Sometimes I think if my mother wasn't so good at pretending to be happy she might be better at actually being happy.
Television > My So-Called Life


Harris: Let us just say - I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it, because I was so happy all the time.
Movies > L.A. Story


"Ha-ha", said Eeyore bitterly. "Merriment and what-not. Don't apologize. It's just what would happen."
Literature > A.A. Milne > Winnie the Pooh


People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Personalities > Abraham Lincoln


Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Scottish Proverb
Miscellaneous > Proverbs

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
Personalities > Mae West

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Literature > Oscar Wilde


If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.
Personalities > Montesquieu


That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
Literature > Samuel Johnson


Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.
Literature > Mark Twain

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Literature > Mignon McLaughlin


No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Personalities > Publilius Syrus


"You'll have to excuse me," said Arthur. "I'm terribly happy."
Literature > Douglas Adams > So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish


We are never so happy or so unhappy as we suppose.
Maxim 49
Literature > François de la Rochefoucauld

I am come, young ladies, in a very moralizing strain, to observe that our pleasures of this world are always to be for, and that we often purchase them at a great disadvantage, giving readi-monied actual happiness for a draft on the future, that may not be honoured.
Literature > Jane Austen > Northanger Abbey

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be "happy" is not included in the plan of "Creation."
Civilization and Its Discontents, ch. 2 (1930).
Personalities > Sigmund Freud

Holly Golightly: Did I tell you how divinely and utterly happy I am?
Paul Varjak: Yes.
Movies > Breakfast at Tiffany's


Albus Dumbledore: Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
Movies > Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban


Bernstein: Every day above ground is a good day.
Movies > Scarface


I am kind of a paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
Literature > J.D. Salinger

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
Personalities > Aristotle

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Literature > Albert Camus