A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
-George Bernard Shaw
Quotations
Happiness
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
-Robert Frost
If you can have everything at fifty that you wanted when you were fifteen, you're happy.
-Alfred Bester
"The Stars My Destination"
Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past.
-Leo Tolstoy
"Anna Karenina"
It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.
-Dale Carnegie
"How to Win Friends and Influence People"
Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Audrey Niffenegger
"The Time Traveler's Wife"
I'm not happy but I'm not unhappy about it.
-Alan Bennett
"The History Boys"
It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
-Kin Hubbard
No one asked you to be happy. Get to work.
-Colette
You can't be happy unless you're unhappy sometimes.
-Lauren Oliver
"Delirium"
