Top 80 Too Much Happiness Quotes
#2. There's such a thing as too much happiness and sadness. What I'm after is contentment.
Ray Charles
#3. It was too much happiness. Happiness puts you at too much risk - what if you were to lose it? Too much happiness is a paradox. It's a tragedy, even: getting something you've always wanted but being unable to keep it.
Jowita Bydlowska
#4. Too much happiness ... is a dangerous thing.
M. Pierce
#5. Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.
Woody Allen
#6. Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous
readers.) But it was all too much - too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps
too much ice cream ...
James Patterson
#7. Too much happiness, too much unhappiness, out of due time, men are thrown off balance. What will they do next? Thought runs wild. No control. They start everything, finish nothing. Here competition begins, here the idea of excellence is born, and robbers appear in the world.
Thomas Merton
#8. Too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.
Amy Tan
#9. Do you think there can be such a thing as too much happiness?
David Levithan
#11. Some things are hard to imagine. Can you conceive of excessive contentment, for example? Or an over pleasant evening? Too much happiness?
Alan Moore
#12. 'American Horror Story' is dark, so you shouldn't be expecting too much happiness.
Taissa Farmiga
#13. although i know that a wall to happiness is expecting too much happiness
Colum McCann
#14. If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to choose happiness.
Dean Koontz
#16. I would definitely say pleasure is not happiness. Because I think I kill pleasure. Like I take too much of it in, and therefore make it un-pleasurable, like too much coffee, and you're miserable.
Philip Seymour Hoffman
#17. The New Your energy goes beyond anything you'll find anywhere else. It's too much for some people and it grinds them down, but it lifts up and animates the rest of us.
Lawrence Block
#18. Don't sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there's nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
Karl Lagerfeld
#20. Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.
Jules Michelet
#21. I do not wish you much happiness
it would bore you; I do not wish you trouble either; but, following the people's philosophy, I will simply repeat: 'Live more' and try somehow not to be too bored; this useless wish I am adding on my own.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#22. I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Queen Victoria
#23. So many thoughts, my kvothe. you know too much to be happy.
Patrick Rothfuss
#24. It is, I know, for I have experienced it perhaps twice in my life, an awful privilege to be too much loved and perhaps the kindest thing I ever did in my life was never to let Matthew know to what degree he had destroyed my peace and my happiness.
Stephen Fry
#25. Money is just a piece of paper for me, it always brings trouble with it and too much of money will make you mad for it
Vignesh S.V
#26. You got to have two things to win. You got to have brains and you got to have balls. Now you've got too much of one and not enough of the other.
Paul Newman
#27. The struggle in attaining our highest success and happiness is not beheld in "not knowing enough" ... but in knowing too much... yet at the same time, applying very little... still!
Sean Azimov
#28. You are only excused for happiness and success if you generously agree to share them. But if one is to be happy, one should not worry too much about other people - which means there is no way out.
Happy and judged or absolved and miserable.
Albert Camus
#29. I've been evaluating how much I value happiness in my life. To be too driven takes away your happiness.
Heather Graham
#30. We think too much of production, and too little of consumption. One result is that we attach too little importance to enjoyment and simple happiness, and that we do not judge production by the pleasure that it gives to the consumer.
Bertrand Russell
#31. She seemed to have waited so long to hear those words that for a moment the earth stood still, and the moon, the trees, the grotesque shadows across the heath, became in that instant transfixed in her memory. How shall I bear this exquisite happiness? It is too much: it will destroy me.
Vera Brittain
#32. I cared about you too much," said Dumbledore simply. "I cared more for your happiness than your knowing the truth,
J.K. Rowling
#33. Whether it be in the sun, the rain, or the snow,
You should always have fun, wherever you go.
Think of all the amusing things you can do,
To bring much laughter and happiness too.
Susanne Alexander-Heaton
#34. The only way to maintain a moderate sum of happiness in this life, is not to worry about the future or regret the past too much
Mel Gibson
#35. You mustn't expect too much," I said. "Happiness consists of wanting what you get.
Peter Stamm
#36. How much longer will you sit back and wait for your dream to spontaneously come true? Too many days, weeks, months, and years have passed! Do not be unresponsive to your own dreams. Now, set a course of action that will lead to bringing your dream into reality.
Steve Maraboli
#37. Too much of anything reduces the overall effect of happiness and satisfaction.
Kelley Armstrong
#38. I can't help feeling that people ask too much [of life]. They don't keep up with the Joneses any more
they outstrip them. What people call happiness, today, isn't happiness. It's enjoyment. It's pleasure. And between happiness and pleasure there's a very large gap.
Elizabeth Cadell
#39. The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
Walter Benjamin
#40. Yes, yes-you will give him the earth-because you love him. Love him too much for safety or for happiness. But you cannot give to people what they are incapable of receiving.
Agatha Christie
#41. Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
Rachel Field
#42. Much too oft we make life gloomy
When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
Charles Caleb Colton
#43. I don't believe in happiness anyway ... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.
Frank McCourt
#44. One can't have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson - paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty.
Aldous Huxley
#46. Happiness is like a cake: have too much of it and you get sick of it.
Karl Pilkington
#47. God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives
DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.
Dale E. Turner
#48. Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.
Ruskin Bond
#49. A child develops best when, like a young plant, he is left undisturbed in the same soil. Too much travel, too much variety of impressions, are not good for the young, and cause them as they grow up to become incapable of enduring fruitful monotony.
Bertrand Russell
#50. Whoever opined "Money can't buy you happiness" obviously had far too much of the stuff.
David Mitchell
#51. Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.
Tom Stoppard
#52. The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy is that happiness is a solid and joy a liquid.
J.D. Salinger
#53. Since graduating from HMS my greatest satisfaction has unequivocally been my family. My main disappointment is that I have wasted too much time in personal pursuits and been less of an influence for good than I might have been.
Norris B. Finlayson
#54. Jacob was right when, after Sam's injury, he said it was too much love for happiness.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#55. Life is a difficult thing to understand. It makes us too much happy and suddenly takes away the happiness.
But we should smile in every phase of the life.
Sahaj Oberoi
#56. Yet too much happy bores. He stretched more, more. Are you not happy in your? Twang. It snapped.
James Joyce
#57. Most would think that I'm a god with every reason to be happy. But I'm a mistake God made. Too much power doesn't create happiness. It steals it. To have it all means there's no struggle and without having to pay a price, nothing has value. I wasn't gifted with powers. I was cursed with them.
Sarah Noffke
#58. She had too much of everything, and so she longed to have less; less, she was sure, would bring her happiness. To me it was a laugh and a relief to observe the unhappiness that too much can bring; I had been so used to observing the reults of too little.
Jamaica Kincaid
#59. My happiness is measured in Inches, 2, 4, 6, 8, ... I LOVE SHOES TOO MUCH ...
Veronica Franco
#60. Too much stress cannot be laid ... upon the admonition that we seek so far as possible to live in the lives of other people. By sharing in the misfortunes of others, and rejoicing in their happiness, you add to your own emotional serenity and stability.
Ralph Alfred Habas
#61. There's too much pain and uncertainty in the world. You should seize happiness whenever it comes, and hold onto it for as long as you can.
Anna White
#62. There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.
Jane Austen
#63. Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
Victor Hugo
#64. Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
#65. Sir, there is nothing too little for so little creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great knowledge of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. 16, July 1763.
Samuel Johnson
#66. The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it.
James Madison
#67. Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.
Ann Brashares
#68. John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.
Henry Ward Beecher
#69. Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
William Blake
#71. Music, such music, is a sufficient gift. Why ask for happiness; why hope not to grieve? It is enough, it is to be blessed enough, to live from day to day and to hear such music-not too much, or the soul could not sustain it-from time to time.
Vikram Seth
#72. My happiness has to come from within myself or it is too fragile a thing to be of any use to me and too much of a burden to benefit any of my loved ones.
Mary Balogh
#74. I love her, Rajasta, I love her too much to hurt her; and I can give her nothing! No vows, no hope of real happiness, only sorrow and pain and, perhaps, shame ...
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#75. Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
Red Skelton
#76. A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.
Zicheng Hong
#77. How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!
Leo Tolstoy
#78. Ma's still spending too much money on clothes. I'm trying to teach her that material possessions don't equal happiness. It's a work in progress.
L. H. Cosway
#79. Famous like a drug that I've taken too much of but I never ever trip, just peace, happiness and love.
Drake
#80. Eternal-mindedness keeps us from silly arguments. There's no time to fight. We have better things to pursue than our interests. Too much is at stake! God created us for a purpose. We can't afford to waste our lives. We can't afford to waste our marriage by merely pursuing our own happiness.
Francis Chan
