Happiness Quotes

Is it a destination or a practice? These quotes explore the most sought-after human experience.

18390 quotes

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"The party never ended."
Nick Carraway
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"Boredom was her deepest wound"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She believed happiness was always one affair away"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"I'm p-paralyzed with happiness."
Jay Gatsby
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"Every happiness seemed to mock her."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Happiness is always elsewhere, never where we are."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The permanence of happiness is an illusion."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"I am still the happiest man alive."
Jay Gatsby
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"The pursuit of happiness often leads to greater misery than acceptance of fate."
Ivan Karamazov
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"Happiness is a pursuit that ends in despair."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Longing is the only pleasure she truly knew."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Happiness is found in loving and being loved."
Cosette
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"There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another"
Edmond Dantès
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"Happiness lies in the pursuit of our true calling"
Edmond Dantès
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"She would have been happy anywhere but where she was."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Happiness is the cruelest of all illusions."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"Happiness lies in the pursuit, not the possession."
Monte Cristo
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"She was always seeking some satisfaction of her desires, and yet never obtaining it."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"She was incapable of understanding contentment."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"The pursuit of happiness often leads to misery."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"A man can get used to anything, even to happiness"
Dmitri Karamazov
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"She wanted everything and yet nothing satisfied her"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"What cruel irony that we become unhappy only after getting what we wanted"
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy."
Platon Karataev
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"And that, he said, was the secret of happiness and virtue—liking what you've got to do."
Mustapha Mond
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"A gramme is better than a damn."
Lenina Crowne
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"People are happy; they get what they want, and they never want what they can't get."
Mustapha Mond
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"Happiness is a hard master—particularly other people's happiness."
Mustapha Mond
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"All happiness comes from acceptance of what is."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"The pursuit of happiness often leads to unhappiness"
Ivan Karamazov