“Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.”
Brian K. Vaughan (1976) American screenwriter, comic book creator
Source: Ex Machina, Vol. 10: Term Limits
“Lucid intervals and happy pauses.”
History of King Henry VII, III (1622)
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“Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) French poet
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Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 43
Context: Liberate yourself from concepts and see the truth with your own eyes. — It exists HERE and NOW; it requires only one thing to see it: openness, freedom — the freedom to be open and not tethered by any ideas, concepts, etc. … When our mind is tranquil, there will be an occasional pause to its feverish activities, there will be a let-go, and it is only then in the interval between two thoughts that a flash of UNDERSTANDING — understanding, which is not thought — can take place.
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Source: Mac Flecknoe (1682), l. 19–24.
William Penn (1644–1718) English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania
The Preface
Fruits of Solitude (1682)
Primo Levi book If This Is a Man
If This Is a Man (1947)
Context: Sooner or later in life everyone discovers that perfect happiness is unrealizable, but there are few who pause to consider the antithesis: that perfect unhappiness is equally unattainable. The obstacles preventing the realization of both these extreme states are of the same nature: they derive from our human condition, which is opposed to everything infinite. Our ever-insufficient knowledge of the future opposes it: and this is called, in the one instance, hope, and and in the other, uncertainty of the following day. The certainty of death opposes it: for it places a limit on every joy, but also on every grief. The inevitable material cares oppose it: for as they poison every lasting happiness, they equally assiduously distract us from our misfortunes and make our consciousness of them intermittent and hence supportable.
Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools
"Irish Essays. A Speech at Eton" (1882)
