Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining in upon you and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel

To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri Frederic Amiel

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right.
Quentin Crisp

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.
Black Elk

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
John Burroughs

Through our willingness to help others we can learn to be happy rather than depressed.
Gerald Jampolsky

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.
Taylor Caldwell

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.
Taylor Caldwell

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.
Vladimir Nabokov

Some people, and I am one of them, hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm.
Vladimir Nabokov

There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.
Sam Kinison

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.
Agatha Christie

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
Agatha Christie

We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
Jules Renard

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.
Alain de Botton

If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed.
James Buchanan

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.
Thomas Moore

America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy.
John Updike

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.
Heidi Klum

Well, I was already so happy being chosen to do the issue itself, that when I got on the cover, it was even more of a surprise and even more amazing to me.
Heidi Klum