Happiness Quote by G.K. Chesterton

“Certain things are indispensable to the happiness of most men, but these are simple things: food and shelter, health, love, successful work and the…

— Bertrand Russell

“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by…

— Alexandre Dumas

“A man enjoys the happiness he feels, and a woman the happiness she gives.”

— A.J. Rich

“All happiness and all unhappiness ... stems from one having a desire. And that is why mankind will always make their wishes.”

— CLAMP

“The happiness of mankind, if it ever should come to pass, would still leave men asking: Why? What point to it? To what end?”

— William Barrett

“Man’s chase after happiness is a feverish and unceasing thing. As we grow older, we search more frantically for it than formerly—and it can…

— Justin Spring

Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune,…

— Aristotle

“Next time we will look at this from a much more basic point of view and one antedating all zoology, which, glimpsed only a…

— José Ortega y Gasset

“Man needs, for his happiness, not merely the enjoyment of this or that, but hope, and enterprise and change.”

— Bertrand Russell

“If men would learn to pursue their own happiness rather than the misery of others, we can achieve a better life for everyone. Adopting…

— Bertrand Russell

“[…] we humans, as long as we live, are generally incapable of freeing ourselves from a certain ardent searching and longing, and should not…

— Robert Walser

“Happiness is not a popular subject in literary fiction. We struggle, as writers, to make happiness, contentment, and satisfaction interesting. Perfection often lacks texture.”

— Roxanne Gay