Ian Mcewan Quotes

I'm a pretty light and light-spirited person; I'm not a depressed guy.

One thing about me is that I don't like to be sad all the time.

All that you really want in life is to change how you feel.

I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful.

It's important to feel good.

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

You've achieved cheerfulness the day you realize that no matter what's happening around you, being anything other than cheerful will not make it better.

"And how are you feeling?" asked Patrick."Oh, I'm grand." Augustus Waters smiled with a corner of his mouth. "I'm on a roller coaster that only goes up, my friend."

Being joyful is a choice.

If we think happy thoughts, we will be happy. If we think miserable thoughts, we will be miserable.

I think it's nice when everyone's happy. I'm that kind of person. But then sometimes you have people that are never happy, which also happened to me a little bit, people that always find ways to complain about everything. But if they're never happy, that's the way they are.

Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.

If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Being cheerful keeps you healthy

I'm a pretty happy person, to be honest with you.

And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

Well, I'd say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I don't go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

I'm quite an optimist, quite happy in life, quite smiley.

I'm kind of a more sunshiny person myself.

Happiness is no laughing matter.

I am happy most of the time.

I'm a pretty light-hearted person.