happiness

"People always called The Cure gloomy, but listening to The Cure made me happy. There was something about the gloominess that gave me comfort, and I think we're the same way."

"If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and …"

"Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure."

"My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life."

"Joycean influences in music"

"So that in the first place, I put for a general inclination of all mankind a perpetual and restless desire of Power after power, that ceaseth only in Death. And the cause of this is not always that a …"

"We want the same thing, you and me. If we can mess with them, everyone’s happy. Except them. Which is the point, right?"

"Every joy brings the sorrow of its absence in its wake."

"The piano is always true to me. In times of despair, happiness, and joy, its mood is always my own."

"Imagine a society that subjects people to conditions that make them terribly unhappy, then gives them the drugs to take away their unhappiness. Science fiction? It is already happening to some extent …"

"The way to stop financial joy-riding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile."

"Inevitably, I drank too much, talked too much, smiled too hard, swallowed back too much bile."

"He who does not give himself leisure to be thirsty cannot take pleasure in drinking."

"What we will be seeking … for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main caus…"

"our sense of self is an activity, a strategy for avoiding suffering, for maximizing happiness."

"The Glass Ark: A Joyce Carol Oates Bibliography"

"You're not a homicidal, I checked that on your record before I came out after you. That is why I know you will join the Corps and get a great deal of pleasure out of going after the other kind of crim…"

"Be happy, but be so by piety."

"I have to say that I haven't met an aggressive beggar in London. In New York, crossing 58th Street from the Plaza Oyster Bar to the Wyndham Hotel, I came up against a huge black man in a long, dark ov…"

"Burns's Brother Gilbert, a man of much sense and worth, has told me that Robert, in his young days, in spite of their hardship, was usually the gayest of speech; a fellow of infinite frolic, laughter,…"