Quest for Happiness Quotes

Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.

I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.

Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

We’re all alive, but we don’t know why or what for; we’re all searching for happiness; we’re all leading lives which are different and yet the same.

Everyone knows that (1) happiness is the goal of life, and (2) happiness is a chimera.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

I have sought happiness through many ages and not found it.

I've always been searching. What am I going to do with all this - searching for that place where I could be me.

That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.

No, while most people have been at their unhappiest when in love, it is nevertheless the state the human being yearns for above all.

The problem isn't materialism as such. Rather it is the underlying assumption that full satisfaction can arise from gratifying the senses alone. Unlike animals whose quest for happiness is restricted to survival and to the immediate gratification of sensory desires, we human beings have the capacity to experience happiness at a deeper level which, when achieved, can overwhelm unhappy experiences.