„But to appear happy when I am so miserable — Oh! who can require it?“

— Jane Austen

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„Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable.“
— John Lennon
„Most people measure their happiness in terms of physical pleasure and material possession. Could they win some visible goal which they have set on the horizon, how happy they would be! Lacking this gift or that circumstance, they would be miserable. If happiness is to be so measured, I who cannot hear or see have every reason to sit in a corner with folded hands and weep. If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life, — if, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.“
— Helen Keller
„When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?“
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
„I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.“
— Frida Kahlo
„I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.“
— Vincent Van Gogh
„Those who see the existence of all mankind in their own person are miserable. Obviously, that man will disappear as an individual. The need for any person to be satisfied and happy to live is to work not for himself but for the future. An insightful man can only act this way. Full enjoyment and happiness in life, but the honor, presence, happiness of future generations can be found.“
— Мустафа Кемаль Ататюрк