There is no happiness on earth to compare with that which a beautiful and fruitful mind finds in a propitious hour within itself.
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The lunatic who thinks he is a crowned head may be, in a sense, happy, but his happiness is not of a kind that any sane person would envy.
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible horrible.
And if happiness were common, it would preserve itself, because appeals to hatred and fear, which now constitute almost the whole of politics would fall flat.
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
cessation / Drunkenness / Happiness / suicide / unhappiness
In the first place, no man is happy but strives his whole life long after a supposed happiness which he seldom attains, and even if he does it is only to be disappointed with it.
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The negativity of well-being and happiness, in antithesis to the positivity of pain.
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The happiness we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings.
She did not understand that there was no such thing as happiness, that the only victory lay in the far future, long after you were dead, that from the moment of declaring war on the Party it was better to think of yourself as a corpse.
All “favourable” Utopias seem to be alike in postulating perfection while being unable to suggest happiness.