“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.”
More from Alexandre Dumas on Happiness
“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.”
“Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.”
“Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…”
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.”
Others on Happiness
Dalai Lama
12 quotes“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Jane Austen
10 quotes“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
Anne Frank
8 quotes“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
Aristotle
6 quotes“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Leo Tolstoy
6 quotes“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”
Bertrand Russell
5 quotes“Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.”
George Santayana
5 quotes“To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in...”
John Stuart Mill
5 quotes“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
Albert Camus
5 quotes“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking...”
André Gide
5 quotes“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
5 quotes“Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp but if you will sit down quietly may alight...”
Dale Carnegie
5 quotes“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.”