Dying Of Happiness Quotes

#1. I want to tie one thousand balloons around my neck
and float up
while slowly dying of happiness.

Matthew Donahoo

#2. Why worry about these small, small things? I don't stress. You never hear of anyone dying of happiness.

Fauja Singh

#3. The pathway to enlightenment is happiness. It doesn't really matter if you're successful, if you're in prison, if you're dying - if you have contact with light.

Frederick Lenz

#4. When you're the only pea in the pod, your parents are likely to get you confused with the Hope diamond.

Russell Baker

#5. And Inigo felt, for the first time since the dying, such happiness. It had fled from him, happiness, and when you spend years without, you forget that no blessing compares ...

William Goldman

#6. We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Jean De La Bruyere

#7. In this particular lifestyle the motto is "Be happy now because tomorrow you are dying," but the dying begins almost at once, and the happiness is a memory.

Philip K. Dick

#8. Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Langston Hughes

#9. It is not possible to express the most precious insights,
To see all that craves to be seen,
To visit even the closest neighbors in the universe,
To learn all that needs to be learned,
To live without dying,
And I am sad about it.
But I lived
And I am happy about that.

Dejan Stojanovic

#10. The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?

Sebastian Faulks

#11. Living's immediacy, you go full sail, you're in a fever of motion. Until it's safe and past and done and dead and you can say, like waking from a dream, "Yes I was happy then, yes now it's all over I can see I was happy then." Maybe that's the advantage of dying?

Joyce Carol Oates

#12. We shall not cease to live even when we are dying every moment.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Why she was the happy one when she was dying, and I just can't seem to manage anything when I'm living.

Daisy Whitney

#14. No prayers, no medicines, merely the ineffable happiness of dying.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#15. 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

#16. Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ, but come at once - come as you are.

Archibald Alexander

#17. All the great words, it seemed to Connie were cancelled, for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now and dying from day to day.

D.H. Lawrence

#18. Death can come slow. Death can come quick. If you've got one last breath, you better make the most of it.

A.H. Scott

#19. And what after all, is death?? 'Tis but a cessation from mortal life; 'tis but the finishing of an appointed course; the refreshing inn after a fatiguing journey; the end of a life of cares and troubles; and, if happy, the beginning of a life of immortal happiness.

Samuel Richardson

#20. The living are always trying to find the shortcuts to happiness in life. But look what happens when someone achieves premature success: they bloom too early and spend the rest of their lives dying....Success without struggle warps a person.

Susan Wells Bennett

#21. Think of, at the moment of dying, is there will be any enemy for you? None! Everyone will be the best friend. So win all your enemies with your divine love when you are living.

Debasish Mridha

#22. Happiness is living by your side, and dying by your side

Maki Enjoji

#23. We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ.

Vincent De Paul

#24. It is better to experience sorrow than happiness.Many life lessons are learnt in moments of sorrow.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#25. [When] you're dying laughing because your three-year-old made a fart joke, it doesn't matter what else is going on. That's real happiness.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#26. Obscurity and a competence - that is the life that is best worth living.

Mark Twain

#27. I don't fear death but I fear the process of dying.

Debasish Mridha

#28. I used to say why save money if I'll die tomorrow, I haven't died yet and I have nothing to survive on

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#29. Everybody has a second personality, it may possess and make you do whatever it likes.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#30. While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

Dalai Lama

#31. I find faith in human perseverance, even as the universe throws challenge after challenge our way.

David Levithan

#32. This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape love.

Peter Kreeft

#33. God limits the happiness and pleasure we have now precisely so we might not become attached to this world or dependent upon it or fearful of leaving it (dying), as well as to stir in our hearts a longing and yearning and holy anticipation for what is yet to come.

Sam Storms

#34. From across the woods, as if by common accord, birds left their trees and darted upward. I joined them, flew amount them, they did not recognize me as something apart from them, and I was happy, so happy, because for the first time in years, and forevermore, I had not killed, and never would.

George Saunders

#35. The point of books was to combat loneliness

David Lipsky