Zadie Smith Quotes

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

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

My joy is watching people being joyful.

I think there are different kinds of happiness. We know when we're happy a lot of the time, but then there are those moments that have more of an afterglow, when the happiness has more depth.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

How sweet it is!

I couldn't be happier.

A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit they enjoy life.

Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

I'm happy every day.

While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

I'd say that I'm a really quite a joyful person in general, but I think the idea of joy can be extremely complex, and rich and varied.

It's good to be just plain happy, it's a little better to know that you're happy; but to understand that you're happy and to know why and how and still be happy, be happy in the being and the knowing, well that is beyond happiness, that is bliss.

I enjoy my life very much.

I'm still happy, I like this life.

Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.

My life now could not be better.

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

I feel blessed, I really feel fulfilled.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

If you are paying attention, then the day is going to be pretty joyful, and a lot of delight will fill it.

There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

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