Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.

The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

I am happy in Paris.

I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.

Beautiful things make people happy.

I couldn't be happier.

It's enormously good fun. I love it. I really do. I have this sort of set face.

I don't quite jump for joy, but I am awfully glad to see him.

Beauty does not linger; it only visits. Yet beauty's visitation affects us and invites us into its rhythm; it calls us to feel, think and act beautifully in the world: to create and live a life that awakens the Beautiful. A life without delight is only half a life.

Fame is indeed beautiful and benign and gentle and satisfying, but happiness is something at once tender and brilliant beyond all things.

People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it?

I love hearing people laugh.

Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

You bet I did. I enjoyed it.

I am very happy at Milan.

I'm very happy at Bayern.

I am very happy with the films that I am getting.

I am very happy in London.

We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure.

Joy was more than just an absence of discomfort.

We could not be happier.

Beauty is objectified pleasure.

Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.