Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

I know I can feel bad, when I get in a bad mood, and the world can look so sad, only you make me feel good.

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy.

Passively accepting your sadness is the same as forgetting to build your own happiness. Happiness is more than a mood. It's a long-lasting state that is more accurately called well-being.

If you aren't unhappy sometimes you don't know how to be happy.

Just because I'm talking about something that might have been a sad or painful situation doesn't mean that I'm sad or tortured 24 hours a day any more than anybody else is.

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

To me, it's like happiness is about happiness, but happiness is a fight.

Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure.

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

I don't know what happiness is. I have periods of feeling joyous and peaceful and excited about what I'm doing, but I am also frequently very sad.

It's just so hard to feel good, you know?

The trick is not how much pain you feel - but how much joy you feel

I am never unhappy, you can achieve that as well.

Anxiety and gratitude cant live in the same head

Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

Melancholy is no bad thing.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

I don't have many sad days.

Generally, I'm not sad. I mean, everyone has sad moments.

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