W. G. Sebald Quotes

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

If this game is taken away from me at any time, I'd be fine going back to the house and living a happy life. If that happens, it happens.

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

I don't have a lot of regrets in my life.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

I have no regrets. I can't think of a regret.

If you turn a smiling face on the world, you've got a chance of finishing up a good-looking old person.

I feel great, very healthy and alive and really happy that I can remember yesterday and I can remember the day before.

If you're satisfied with your social life, according to psychologists, you tend to be satisfied with life in general.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

Everything I turn up to, I think I'm going to enjoy. I never look back, so I don't have regrets.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.

I have the nicest life in the world.

I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

I think to have done 'Titanic' would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.