Quotes About Emotion

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness.

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.

There is no shame in preferring happiness.

The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep out of me.

If you're an artist, the problem is to make a picture work whether you are happy or not.

Happiness comes uninvited: and the moment that you are conscious that you are happy, you are no longer happy.

And we who have always thought of happiness climbing, would feel the emotion that almost startles when happiness falls.

Happiness can be thought, taught and caught... but not bought.

Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Long after you've forgotten someone's voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body.

Joy came always after pain.

Joy is what we all seek. It is an energy more powerful than food. But without love we can not feel true joy.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

We don't laugh because we're happy - we're happy because we laugh.

Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.

Happiness never becomes a habit.

Musical composition should bring happiness and joy to people and make them forget their troubles.