Quotes about happiness
248 quotes from 159 people
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.
Christopher Morley1890–1957Where the Blue Begins (1922)- IMIris Murdoch1919–1999A Fairly Honourable Defeat (1970); 2001, p. 170.
What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2
Anaïs Nin1903–1977Feb. 15, 1936Our Soul may never have rest in things that are beneath itself.
Julian of Norwich1342–1416Revelations of Divine Love, Sixteenth Revelation, Ch. 67- MOMary Oliver1935–2019Why I Wake Early (2004), “Mindful”
Ah, to be you while being I!
To have your glad unconsciousness
And be conscious of it!
Fernando Pessoa1888–1935“Ela canta, pobre ceifeira” (“She sings, poor reaper”), Athena no. 3 (December 1924); tr. Richard Zenith
Max Planck1858–1947Where Is Science Going? (1932), “Is the External World Real?”, p. 83
Karl Popper1902–1994The Open Society and Its Enemies (1945), Vol. 1, Notes to the Chapters: Ch. 9, Note 2.Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Marcel Proust1871–1922Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VII: The Past Recaptured (1927), Ch. III: “An Afternoon Party at the House of the Princesse de Guermantes”Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
Marcel Proust1871–1922Remembrance of Things Past (1913-1927), Vol. VII: The Past Recaptured (1927), Ch. III: “An Afternoon Party at the House of the Princesse de Guermantes”You can be married and bored, or single and lonely. Ain’t no happiness nowhere.
Chris Rockborn 1965Never Scared (HBO, 2004)
