The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Happiness is very simple and minimal.
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.
Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.
Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.