
Book II, ch. 4 (trans. Constance Garnett)
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)
All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy.
Book II, ch. 4 (trans. Constance Garnett)
General, The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)
Book II, ch. 4 (trans. Constance Garnett)
The Brothers Karamazov (1879–1880)
“Happiness! pleasure I should rather say,
Happiness never made on earth a stay”
(5th June 1825) Portraits II
The London Literary Gazette, 1825
Letter to Leonard Woolf (28 March 1941), from The Virginia Woolf Reader (1984) edited by Mitchell A. Leaska, p. 369, ISBN 0156935902
“Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.”
Source: The Black Tulip
In notes to Anita Pollitzer, Abiquiu, New Mexico, (after February, 1968); as quoted in The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O’Keeffe & Anita Pollitzer, ed. Clive Giboire, Touchstone Books, Simon & Schuster Inc., New York, 1990, p. 324
1960s
"Are You Happy?" (song)
Song lyrics
Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Are You Happy?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLBSdzsybWw (song on YouTube)
“I do not think that we have a “right” to happiness. If happiness happens, say thanks.”
Herzog on Herzog (2002)