Change Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

There is a plain distinction to be made betwixt pleasure and happiness. For tho' there can be no happiness without pleasure--yet the converse of…

— Laurence Sterne

False pleasures come from without and are imperfect: happiness is internal and our own.

— John Lubbock

In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction.

— Zicheng Hong

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness…

— Hugh Black

“Happiness is not to be achieved at the command of emotional whims. Happiness is not the satisfaction of whatever irrational wishes you might blindly…

— Ayn Rand

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

— C. S. Lewis

Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

— Anonymous

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

— Anonymous

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or…

— George Santayana

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.

— George Santayana

The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau