As a child I was told by my parents that I was happy, but I did not believe them. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Complainers rule out happiness, mentioning it only as something lost. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
You are as happy as you think you are, but not necessarily as miserable as you imagine. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Prudence does not make people happy; it merely deprives them of the excitement of being constantly in trouble. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
All history and art are against us, but we still expect happiness in love. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The telephone gives us the happiness of being together yet safely apart. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Think of the many different relations of form and content. E.g., the many pairs of trousers and what's in them. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share
