A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.
—Charles Baudelaire, 1897Quotes
Happiness is no laughing matter.
—Richard Whately, 1843Just to fill the hour—that is happiness.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844I have given up considering happiness as relevant.
—Edward Gorey, 1974The right to the pursuit of happiness is nothing else than the right to disillusionment phrased in another way.
—Aldous Huxley, 1956One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy.
—George Eliot, 1844How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do.
—William James, 1902We must select the illusion which appeals to our temperament and embrace it with passion if we want to be happy.
—Cyril Connolly, 1944Human happiness never remains long in the same place.
—Herodotus, c. 430 BCOne is never as unhappy as one thinks, nor as happy as one hopes.
—La Rochefoucauld, 1664Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness.
—Thomas Paine, 1792Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCHe who would be happy should stay at home.
—Greek proverb