By Category: Happiness
“Hannah was about ready to burst with excitement, which would have been disgusting because she would have sprayed blood, guts, and glitter in every direction. She was an innocent, a freshman, one of the sad believers who thought high school was where they would be popular and smart and happy - above all happy.”
-Twisted, Laurie Halse Anderson
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“I'm sorry, Zagreus, but it's been a long time since I talked about certain things. So I don't know any more---or I'm not sure. When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears. Like that sky. It's rain and sun both, noon and midnight. You know, Zagreus, I think of the lips I've kissed, and the wretched child I was, and of the madness of life and the ambition that sometimes carries me away. I'm all these things at once. I'm sure there are times you wouldn't even recognize me. Extreme in misery, excessive in happiness---I can't say it.”
-A Happy Death, Albert Camus
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“It's like when you are excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so happy for them. And other times you see the same couple, and they make you so mad. And all you want is to feel happy for them because you know that if you do, then it means that you're happy too.”
-The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
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“It's impossible to maintain, impossible to sustain. You can't stay like this forever. blissed out. Bugged out. High, but not stoned. I'm in this moment. This second. nowhere else. the work is done. On the highway a few red embers glow on the horizon. I press down on the gas pedal and imagine myself dissolving into the dark, exploding like molecules transmitted through the air, floating forever in silent space -- surrounded by potential, never having to slow down, never having to land.”
-Dispatches From The Edge, Anderson Cooper
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“The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
-Victor Hugo
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“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And of course stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
-Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
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“Happiness? Is this what it feels like, this surge of warmth and physical euphoria? Oh Christine, if there were a loving God in heaven it would be my arm you take now, my shoulder upon which you lean in your utter exhaustion. ...Beneath the mask my face is wet with tears. Happiness is like the first blissful intoxication of morphine. It doesn't last very long.”
-Phantom, Susan Kay
Recommended by Sibyl.
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“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.”
-Ken Keys
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“I don't care about happiness if it makes you feel alright
Close your eyes and bite your tongue
And you'll get through the night.”
-Not Inside My Head, Liveonrelease
Recommended by Shay.
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“Happiness: We rarely feel it.
I would buy it, beg it, steal it,
Pay in coins of dripping blood
For this one transcendent good.”
-Happiness, Amy Lowell
Recommended by Monica.
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“I'm so happy
'Cause today I found my friends
They're in my head.”
-Lithium, Nirvana
Recommended by Eleri.
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“Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.”
-George Orwell
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“There's no joy without the pain
It's the pain that makes us strong.”
-Mistaken, Save Ferris
Recommended by Suzanne.
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“Knowing that everything comes to an end is a gift of experience, a consolation gift for knowing that we ourselves are coming to an end. Before we get it we live in a continuous present, and imagine the future as more of that present. Happiness is endless happiness, innocent of its own sure passing. Pain is endless pain.”
-This Boy's Life: A Memoir, Tobias Wolff
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