Meg Rosoff Quotes

What is joy? It is a bird That we all want to catch. It is the same bird That we all love to see flying.

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

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.

Who's happy these days?

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

I'm really happy. Really!

I'm happy every day.

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.

Joy is the best of wine.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Nothing is harder to dramatize than happiness.

Our goal should be to achieve joy.

It feels so good to be happy.

I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

How delicious is pleasure after torment!

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 definitely as happy as I've ever been. Happier, I would say, than I've ever been.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

I'm happy; I'm a happy person.