Weekend Words: Happiness
This week it was reported that the first recordings ever made by Elvis Presley, "My Happiness" and "That’s When Your Heartaches Begin" (both 1953), have been digitized and will be released by Jack White’s Third Man Records.
This week it was reported that the first recordings ever made by Elvis Presley, “My Happiness” and “That’s When Your Heartaches Begin” (both 1953), have been digitized and will be released by Jack White’s Third Man Records.
Shall we never have done with that cliche, so stupid that it could only be human, about the sympathy of animals for man when he is unhappy? Animals love happiness almost as much as we do. A fit of crying disturbs them, they’ll sometimes imitate sobbing, and for a moment they’ll reflect our sadness. But they flee unhappiness as they flee fever, and I believe that in the long run they are capable of boycotting it.
—Colette
Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly often attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.
—Thomas Szasz, The Second Sin
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
—Albert Camus
Beauty for some provides escape,
Who gain a happiness in eyeing
The gorgeous buttocks of an ape
Or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
—Aldous Huxley, “Ninth Philosopher’s Song”
Heaven — I’m in Heaven — And my heart beats so that I can barely speak;
And I seem to find the happiness I seek
When we’re out together dancing cheek-to-cheek.
—Irving Berlin, “Cheek-to-Cheek”
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
—Agnes Repplier
If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.
—Luis Bunuel
Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
—Thomas Browne, Urn-Burial
Money can’t buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you’re being miserable.
—Clare Boothe Luce
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
—Jane Austen
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
—Ambrose Bierce
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
—George Bernard Shaw, Candida
