Joseph Hall Quotes

We don't all have perfect lives, even if they are seemingly so.

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

No man is happy but by comparison.

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

You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.

The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.

If you're miserable and someone flies by looking like they have everything in the whole world and it's never going to be you, that's tough to deal with.

Jealousy means ego, jealousy means unconsciousness. Jealousy means that you have not known even a moment of joy and bliss; you are living in misery. Jealousy is a by-product of misery, ego, unconsciousness.

We torment ourselves rather to make it appear that we are happy than to become so.

There is no greater misery than false joys.

It does not suit the world to hear that people who are leading a high life, an enviable life, a privileged life are as miserable most days as anybody else, despite the fact that it must be obvious they would be - given that we are all agreed that money and fame do not bring happiness. Instead the world would prefer to enjoy the idea, against what it knows to be true, that wealth and fame do in fact insulate and protect against misery and it would rather we shut up if we are planning to indicate otherwise.

It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.

There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.

There is little consolation in the fact that millions of people are unhappier than we are. Why should other people's misery make us happier or more content?

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

If you try to delight the undelightable, you've made yourself miserable for no reason.

You all looked so happy together in the photograph. You looked like the perfect family. Is there such a thing anymore because if there is, my happy little unit was definitely not in the queue when they were handing out the titles.

The more I swear I'm happy the more I'm feeling alone

There is much less envy of the rich by the poor than there is of the happy by the unhappy; by those who believe, by those who don't believe.

I am malicious because I am miserable

I'm standing here, holding a half a lemon in my hand. I'm speechless, I'm excited . . . I'm a wreck. Caleb wants to be where I am.

Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.

When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.