Happiness Quotes

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

18390 quotes

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"Soma is the answer."
Lenina Crowne
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"The greatest happiness of life is the knowledge that we are loved."
Cosette
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"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."
Alexei (Alyosha) Karamazov
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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery."
Mustapha Mond
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"I'm p-paralyzed with happiness."
Jay Gatsby
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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery"
Mustapha Mond
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"I'm absolutely happy here, aren't you?"
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"
Bernard Marx
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"The choice for mankind lay between freedom and happiness, and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better."
O'Brien
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"A man is happy so long as he chooses to be happy"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Happiness is a hard master - particularly other people's happiness"
Bernard Marx
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"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery"
Mustapha Mond
M
"The greatest happiness for the greatest number"
Mustapha Mond
M
"The secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you've got to do"
Mustapha Mond
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"I'm not unhappy because I'm happy always"
Lenina Crowne
P
"Without suffering there is no true happiness."
Pierre Bezukhov
C
"Cheswick was nuts, but he was happy."
Chief Bromden
R
"That's all any of us want."
Randle McMurphy
P
"Real happiness comes not from external success but from inner harmony."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Pneumatic bliss."
Lenina Crowne
L
"Take a gramme and leave them all to heaven."
Lenina Crowne
L
"I like comfort."
Lenina Crowne
C
"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved for ourselves."
Cosette
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"The world's stable now. People are happy."
Lenina Crowne
M
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery."
Mustapha Mond
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"Our new, happy life had begun."
Winston Smith
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"Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't."
Mustapha Mond
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"A gramme is better than a damn."
Lenina Crowne
M
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery."
Mustapha Mond