Quotes about happiness
248 quotes from 159 people
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Address at the Prize Day Exercises at Groton School (1904)Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad.To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Conquest of Happiness (1930)Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Conquest of Happiness (1930)Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970The Conquest of Happiness (1930)The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Said in conversation with Mrs. Alan Wood; quoted in Alan Wood’s Bertrand Russell, the Passionate Sceptic (Allen and Unwin, 1957), pp. 236-7- Bertrand Russell1872–1970New Hopes for a Changing World (1951), Part I: Man and Nature, Ch. 1: Current Perplexities, p. 10
J. D. Salinger1919–2010De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period (1952)
George Santayana1863–1952The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress (1905-1906), Vol. I, Reason in Common SenseThere is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.
