Letter to Aysel Şengün (2001)
Context: I am what you wish for, but unfortunately you must still wait so little until we will be together again. I did not flee from you, but I did what I had to do. You should be very proud of it, it is an honor, and you will see the result, and everybody will be happy.
“Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.”
Source: Point Counter Point
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Aldous Huxley 290
English writer 1894–1963Related quotes
1979
Ch 10
The Little Lame Prince and his Travelling Cloak (1875)
Context: Thus King Dolor's reign passed, year after year, long and prosperous. Whether he was happy — "as happy as a king" — is a question no human being can decide. But I think he was, because he had the power of making everybody about him happy, and did it too; also because he was his godmother's godson, and could shut himself up with her whenever he liked, in that quiet little room in view of the Beautiful Mountains, which nobody else ever saw or cared to see. They were too far off, and the city lay so low. But there they were, all the time. No change ever came to them; and I think, at any day throughout his long reign, the King would sooner have lost his crown than have lost sight of the Beautiful Mountains.
“Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is at their heels.”
“Nobody wants to live with a person who'll never be happy.”
Source: Hector and the Search for Happiness
#40541, Part 41
Seventy Seven Thousand Service-Trees series 1-50 (1998)
“Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.”