George Meredith Quotes

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.

I just feel like I'm the luckiest person in the world being able to do what I love and be able to do it all day every day if I like, you know, I mean it's great, I love it.

I am a free man. I feel as light as a feather.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know.

Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load, Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code; I worry not for what exists, nor fret for what is lost, I breathe with extreme ease, and live at very little cost.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

Flash is about freedom; Flash is about expression. Flash is about just the joy of exuberant running and of freedom, and the moment you weight him down with too much Batman-like baggage... that's not the Flash anymore.

I enjoy my life.

Life is all about having a good time.

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman; it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

I'm happy to be here. I'm happy to be anywhere. I'm not kidding.

There's a freedom to being young that is harder to come by as time goes on.

Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a fiction writer. Nothing that happened holds any special tyranny over me.

If I'm crazy, I'm blissfully so!

I think that life is just too sweet to be bitter.

I don't want to ever, ever do something in life that isn't fun. Ever.

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

I'm enjoying my years, I'm enjoying my life, I'm enjoying my family. I'm just happy - a happy person.

I'm happy in retirement.

I have nothing holding me back in my head at all.