Giacomo Casanova Quotes

The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.

There is little correlation between the circumstances of people's lives and how happy they are.

One is never as happy or as unhappy as one thinks.

I could see no reason for being sad. It´s just that it makes me unhappy not to feel happy.

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

I wonder whether my bleak-o-meter is set differently from other people's.

I don't pretend to be happy all the time. I think to be human is to be happy and unhappy by turns. But I have a great capacity to enjoy myself, and it seems to grow as I get older.

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

What is happiness and unhappiness? It depends so little on the circumstances; it depends really only on what happens inside a person. I am grateful for every day and that makes me happy.

It was unbearable, and he thought again, 'How unhappy I am!' and became happier.

As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

I think by the time you're grown you're as happy as you're goin to be. You'll have good times and bad times, but in the end you'll be about as happy as you was before. Or as unhappy. I've knowed people that just never did get the hang of it.

it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.

A person cannot make another happy, but he can make him unhappy. This is the main reason why there is more unhappiness than happiness in the world.

If I can make you unhappy, then I can make you happy as well.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

If you don't mind being unhappy, what happens to the unhappiness?

You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?

I Don't Think There's A Good Excuse For Being Unhappy. I'm Not Particularly Unhappy, But I Know What Pain Is. I think That Life Is Characterized By Pain, Partly. Part Of The Way You Can Tell You're Alive Is By How Much Pain You're Experiencing, Or How Little.

Happiness is a state of which you are unconscious. The moment you are aware that you are happy, you cease to be happy.