Marcel Proust Quotes

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

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

No man can enjoy happiness without thinking that he enjoys it.

I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little.

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

I'm never entirely happy. That's just part of my personality, and I just have to accept that.

One thing that I think most people don't notice is that if you're sitting around telling yourself, 'I want to be happier,' there's a kind of subconscious message that you're also telling yourself at the same time, which is, 'What I have is not enough.'

Happiness is a state of mind. You can be happy or you can be unhappy.

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.

I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.

Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once.

There are many more attempts to define happiness than unhappiness. It is because people know all too well what unhappiness is.

There are moments when people are incapable of understanding happiness.

Are you always trying to get somewhere other than where you are so that you can finally be happy? The truth is that all unhappiness is caused by denial of the present.

I was deeply unhappy, but I didn't know it because I was so happy all the time.

I'm a much happier guy than a lot of people think I am.

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.

I've never enjoyed myself. I'm incapable of enjoying myself. There's just some people who don't enjoy themselves very much.

I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.

If your life at night is good, you think you have Everything; but, if in that quarter things go wrong, You will consider your best and truest interests Most hateful.

Happy people are poor psychologists.