C. S. Lewis Quotes

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.

I am really happy here in England.

I am, more than anything else, happy.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

The thing we're all looking for is happiness, and if we achieve just a modicum of that or even a little piece of serenity even for five minutes a day, we're very lucky.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.

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.

What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?

I'm happy in my life.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.

Happiness is best defined by its antonym, which is less 'unhappiness' than 'anxiety.' Anyone who is not oppressed by intolerable worry or grievous pain is almost certainly happy, whether rich or poor, well or ill, successful or frustrated.

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

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.

For me, I'm very happy in Atlanta.

I am simply happy in Munich.

I am happy at Napoli.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

From such a gentle thing, from such a fountain of all delight, my every pain is born.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.

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