Quotes about happiness
248 quotes from 159 people
Kanye Westborn 1977Thank You and You’re Welcome (2009), p.22
Eckhart Tolleborn 1948The Power of Now (1997)All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910Anna Karenina (1875–1877; 1878), Pt. I, ch. 1
Samuel Johnson1709–1784The Idler (1758–1760), No. 58 (26 May 1759)
G. K. Chesterton1874–1936A Short History of England (1917), p. 59- G. K. Chesterton1874–1936The Defendant (1901), “Introduction”
Our Soul may never have rest in things that are beneath itself.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Sixteenth Revelation, Ch. 67You can be married and bored, or single and lonely. Ain’t no happiness nowhere.
Chris Rockborn 1965Never Scared (HBO, 2004)
Kurt Vonnegut1922–2007“Knowing What’s Nice”, an essay from In These Times (2003)
Robert G. Ingersoll1833–1899“The Gods” (1876) as published in The Gods and Other Lectures (1879)
Rabindranath Tagore1861–1941Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life (1913), “The Realisation of the Infinite”
Cary Grant1904–1986Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)
James Brown1933–2006Brown, J. & Tucker, B.B. (1986). James Brown: The Godfather of Soul. Macmillan: New York.
Lily Jamesborn 1989Hodge, Gavanndra (15 June 2019). “Lily James: ‘We are trying always to be happy, but unhappiness is just as real, just as important’”
