“Food is for taste. Happiness is taste of life.”

“Happy are they who know not the taste of evil.”

Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian

“So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

“It's good when food tastes good, it's kind of like proof you're alive.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

“Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.”

Robert Redford (1936) actor and film director from the United States

“You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.”

Philip Roth book The Dying Animal

“Good food isn't just about the taste.

It's about where and with whom you eat it.”

Natsumi Ando (1970) Manga artist

“I tasted life.”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

“The strenuous life tastes better”

William James (1842–1910) American philosopher, psychologist, and pragmatist

“The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.”

H. Rider Haggard book She: A History of Adventure