It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.

Happiness is getting a brown gravy stain on a brown dress.

Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.

Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

Happy Hour: a depressing comment on the rest of the day and a victory for the most limited Dionysian view of human nature.

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.