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