Top 100 The Happiest Quotes
#1. If the world was ending, and we were the only people left, I think I'd be the happiest man alive."
"You'd be the only man alive.
Frankie Rose
#2. My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.
Paul Merton
#3. When one grows older one learns that happiness - complete and unadulterated happiness - comes only in moments, and must be recognized and savored to the full, for even in the happiest life, the complete joy is not always present.
Victoria Holt
#4. Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?
Desiderius Erasmus
#5. Adoptive parents often say about adoption day: "It was the happiest day of our lives!" While most of us are happy to be adopted, our own hearts tell us that adoption day was the most painful day of our lives, for the person with whom we shared deep intimacy suddenly disappeared from our world.
Sherrie Eldridge
#6. And here will apply an observation made before, that whatever is proper to each is naturally best and pleasantest to him: such then is to Man the life in accordance with pure Intellect (since this Principle is most truly Man), and if so, then it is also the happiest.
Aristotle.
#7. Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.
Chanakya
#8. The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,
What perils past, what crosses to ensue,
Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.
William Shakespeare
#10. Mothers' bodies are not their own. The happiest ones seem to have forgotten what it is like to want themselves back at all.
Lisa Carey
#11. I myself have never been enchanted by the dream of the white wedding, and, heaven help us, the expectation that this exquisitely catered event should be 'the happiest moment' of one's life.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#12. In fact, many musicians are the happiest when the artist and audience re-interpret or re-imagine the content of the songs.
John Dyer Baizley
#13. Often it is those who live quietly, modestly, and contentedly with a simple life who are the happiest.
Joshua Becker
#14. The happiest end of life is this: when the mind and the other senses being unimpaired, the same nature which put it together takes asunder her own work.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#15. This moment, this one position in time, was the happiest I will ever be as long as I am living. I have since felt it was too happy, that men are not meant to have access to this kind of satisfaction; certainly it has tempered every moment of happiness I have experienced since.
Patrick DeWitt
#16. Let youth cherish sleep, the happiest of earthly boons, while yet it is at its command; for there cometh the day to all when "neither the voice of the lute nor the birds" shall bring back the sweet slumbers that fell on their young eyes as unbidden as the dews.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#17. 'Taxi Driver' was one of the happiest moments of my career.
Cybill Shepherd
#18. I believe that the happiest of all Christians and the truest of Christians are those who never dare to doubt God, but take His Word simply as it stands, and believe it, and ask no questions, just feeling assured that if God has said it, it will be so.
Charles Spurgeon
#19. It may sound too good to be true, but once you've seen the happiest people in your life who have nothing, you really start rethinking what the world, and society, tells us that we need to be happy.
Blake Mycoskie
#20. I have not suffered a lot for Christ, but I want to tell you that those times that I have suffered and I knew it was for Jesus, have been some of the happiest times of my entire life.
Adrian Rogers
#21. The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.
Rachel Weisz
#22. The happiest moment in my life? When my doctor told me I was completely cured of leukemia.
Jose Carreras
#23. The happiest moment of my life was probably when my daughter was born.
David Duchovny
#24. Emma Katherine Harrison, angel of mercy and forgiveness, love of my life and mother of my son, will you make me the happiest man in the world and say you'll marry me?
Katie Ashley
#25. I experienced the happiest moment of my life when you took me in your arms as your wife and pressed me to your heart; when I even think of that moment my heart beats madly and I have a terrible longing for you, and I think I would hug you to death if I had you here now.
Hannah Pakula
#26. Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#27. The Princess was never heard to complain, for she was a true Princess with a pure heart. The happiest folk are those that are busy, for their minds are starved of time to seek out woe. Thus did the Princess grow up contented.
Kate Morton
#28. The happiest girls always have the prettiest nails.
Tammy Taylor
#29. A thousand happy moments succumbed to history. It was the happiest hour of the year, worst time of our lives. I can still smell the ruins from that cold dark brute stormy October night.
Parul Wadhwa
#30. I'd like to think there is a Heaven, and it starts from the happiest day in your life.
Billy Crystal
#32. Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.
Haruki Murakami
#33. And this,' said she, 'is the end of all his friend's anxious circumspection! of all his sister's falsehood and contrivance! The happiest, wisest, most reasonable end!
Jane Austen
#34. Whenever someone acts one way in public - goes overboard, if you know what i mean - it'll turn out they have an opposite side. The quietest person will have the worst temper. The happiest person will suffer the worst depressions. The best thing about a person is the worst thing.
Ethan Black
#35. My four years at Berkley represent two of the happiest weeks of my life.
Michael Medved
#36. To wish for the happiest days is to wish for a season of sorrow; for it is only after prolonged, wintry darkness that the summer sun appears to shine at its brightest.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#37. The happiest man is he, who being above the troubles which money brings, has his hands the fullest of work.
Anthony Trollope
#38. I almost hate to say this, but I am the happiest I have ever been in my life," she told me. "Sometimes it takes going through something so awful to realize the beauty that is out there in this world." Brain
Sheryl Sandberg
#39. Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#40. The hour of happiness which comes unexpectedly is the happiest.
Horace
#41. The happiest lot for a man, as far as birth is concerned, is that it should be such as to give him but little occasion to think much about it.
Richard Whately
#42. The Gong Show provided me with five years of the happiest times of my life, but that's that. And to be known as the guy who gave the world The Gong Show - listen, my Uncle George isn't known as anything. So I guess it isn't so bad in that context.
Chuck Barris
#43. One of the happiest consequences of the absence of government ... is the development of individual strength that inevitably follows.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#44. What I mean is, it reminded me of one of the happiest moments of childhood, before broken wrists and purpling bruises and nasty names hissed when my mother's back was turned. Before Who do you think you are? You're ugly. You're nobody.
Nova Ren Suma
#45. When we anticipate, we're the happiest. Unless you're on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can't anticipate. You think everything's going to be horrible, so it usually is.
Lewis Black
#46. With all my work, I have not more, with my shares in the bank and the Academy, than twelve or thirteen thousand reales a year, and with all this, I am as contented as the happiest man on earth.
Francisco Goya
#47. One of the happiest moments of life is when you learn to love without expecting any return.
Debasish Mridha
#48. Jessica: If we only have daughters?
Lucius: If we have only daughters, I will be the happiest vampire alive. For I have come to learn
from you
that a princess can be as powerful as a prince.
Beth Fantaskey
#49. But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.
Danny Wallace
#50. Then Monsieur is satisfied?" asked Planchet. "My dear Planchet, I am the happiest of men!" "And I may profit by Monsieur's happiness, and go to bed?
Alexandre Dumas
#51. As an amateur you have an advantage over photographers - you can do as you wish ... This should make amateurs the happiest of photographers.
Andreas Feininger
#52. I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.
Henry Miller
#53. Friendship is the happiest and most fully human of all loves, the crown of life.
C.S. Lewis
#54. All things considered, the happiest epitaph to have etched on one's headstone is this: 'He never knew what hit him'.
Thomas Ligotti
#55. If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.
Jackie Kennedy
#56. Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a simple, earnest-hearted girlhood, and they are the happiest women who never lose it entirely.
Lucy Larcom
#57. For me, some of the happiest moments on a live-action film are the awkward moments. One actor says something to another actor. They didn't expect that performance from that actor; that affects their return performance.
Gore Verbinski
#58. Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.
David Nicholls
#59. I am the happiest person on this world, who has never seen ups and downs in life. I got whatever I wished for ... And I woke up!
Rahul Rampal
#60. His throat bobbled. His kiss that time was deep and thorough, unhurried and intent.
I let the dawn creep inside me, let it grow with each movement of his lips and brush of his tongue against mine. Tears pricked beneath my closed eyes.
It was the happiest moment of my life.
Sarah J. Maas
#61. I retired from acting the same time they stopped hiring me. But following my own thing of making these small indie movies has been the happiest I've ever been.
Bobcat Goldthwait
#62. A poet, as he is the author to others of the highest wisdom, pleasure, virtue, and glory, so he ought personally to be the happiest, the best, the wisest, and the most illustrious of men.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#63. So the highest and the happiest of endeavors is to be a philosopher ? Doesn't it seem self-serving for a philosopher to make that claim?
Irvin D. Yalom
#64. Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#65. The happiest life is to be without thought
Sophocles
#66. Life wasn't too bad. The trouble with Man was, even while he was having a good time, he didn't appreciate it. Why, thought Milligan, this very moment might be the happiest in me life. The very thought of it made him miserable.
Spike Milligan
#67. The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel Johnson
#68. When I'm having good sex, I'm the happiest, least violent person on earth. If people had more and better sex and felt less guilty about it, we'd live in a much better world."
"I am happy to help you in your quest to fuck for world peace."
"I'll take you up on that offer.
Tiffany Reisz
#69. As for me, I am unfortunate enough not to posses a happy temperament like Najdorf, who views every happening in a rosy light and avoids any possibility of self-criticism. I am one of those unlucky skeptics who never overlook the dark side of even the happiest experience.
Savielly Tartakower
#70. If I had died right then, I would have been the happiest girl in the world.
Kirsty Moseley
#71. To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves; the crown of life and the school of virtue. The modern world, in comparison, ignores it.
C.S. Lewis
#72. The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.
William Lyon Phelps
#73. You are a sinner married to a sinner ... and the happiest marriage is the union of two forgivers.
Skip Heitzig
#74. No one recognises the happiest moment of their lives as they are living it
Orhan Pamuk
#76. As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.
Julian Lennon
#77. Inheritance taxes are so high that the happiest mourner at a rich man's funeral is usually Uncle Sam.
Olin Miller
#78. I believe the happiest moments of your life are yet to come.
Brian Tracy
#79. If we look at the happiest, most successful people and companies, they're those that have a positive attitude about continuously improving. It's growth. It's something new. It's an adventure.
Laurie Sudbrink
#80. I M A Simple
Person Who Hides
A Thousand Feelings
Behind The Happiest
Smile.
Me
#81. Like the fox I run with the hunted and if I'm not the happiest man on earth I'm surely the luckiest man alive.
Charles Bukowski
#82. The happiest moment will be those moments when you give yourself in the service of others.
Debasish Mridha
#83. The happiest is he who suffers least; the most miserable is he who enjoys least.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#84. I just want you as you are. Broken. Misunderstood. Jerk. I want the real version, the dark version, the one who made me the saddest I've ever been in my life, but also the happiest." Now was
L.J. Shen
#85. The happiest people in America socialize about seven hours a day,
Dan Buettner
#86. One of the happiest days of my life is when I made five or six hundred pesos from a crop of watermelons I raise all on my own.
Emiliano Zapata
#87. The happiest people are the ones who can build a firm foundation of awesomeness out of the stones people have thrown at them.
Tanya Masse
#88. Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.
Theodore Martin
#90. The happiest moments in our lives are when we are playing just like children, when we are singing and dancing, when we are exploring and creating just for fun.
Miguel Ruiz
#91. I am the happiest person I've ever met. This is what Buddhist Yoga and a healthy dose of reading the Declaration of the Independence, The Constitution and the Federalist Papers and anything else I could get my hands on has given me.
Frederick Lenz
#92. This is just the happiest car in the world! I shall call it Oliver! Not that wed ever name a car on Top Gear. I wish I hadnt said that.
Richard Hammond
#93. It was easily the happiest day of my football life and yet people still want to ask me about the suit. When they talk about the day, it's not 'didn't you do well?', it's 'what was that you were wearing?!
Paul Jewell
#95. I often think that those people are the happiest who know nothing at all of the world, and sitting in the little empire of the fireside, where there is no contention or cabal, think we are in a golden age of existance.
Elizabeth Montagu
#96. Some people burn all of their energy helping themselves, while some use all of it helping others. The happiest among us do a little of both.
John Avery
#97. Writing is a mixed blessing. We, who are addicted, berate ourselves and feel guilty when we don't write and at the same time put it off and hunt for diversions. Why? Because the this that makes us the happiest is also tedious, hard and frustrating. Writing makes us crazy; not writing even crazier.
Marcia Preston
#98. What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?
Nancy Reagan
#99. There is one thing we can do, and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can ... give all our attention to the opportunity before us.
Mark Van Doren
#100. Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
Pablo Neruda
