I'm interested in the dark side of man. I'm interested in taboos, and murder is the greatest taboo. Characters are fascinating in their extremity, not in their happiness.
— Elizabeth George
The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled.
— Eliza Doolittle
Money can't buy happiness. Or put my family back together.
— Elin Nordegren
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.
— Elie Wiesel
Happiness is the freedom of choice. The freedom to choose where to live, what to do, what to buy, what to sell, from whom, to whom, when and how.
— Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
It is doubtless true that men are bad because they are unhappy. If anyone could give them real happiness, the happiness of brotherhood, they would all want to live the true and brotherly life.
— Edwin Markham
What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
I longed for literary celebrity even as I saw with my own eyes how little happiness it brought.
— Edmund White
What fulfills me are the goals that I have in life. And those goals are not just about scoring goals, although the goals give me a lot of strength and happiness.
— Edinson Cavani
I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
— Eddie Albert
People will say candy is recession-proof, and we're definitely seeing nostalgic candies coming about, and people want that sugar rush and that nostalgic happiness, like their childhood times.
— Dylan Lauren
I think happiness is a choice. If you feel yourself being happy and can settle in to the life choices you make, then it's great. It's really, really great. I swear to God, happiness is the best makeup.
— Drew Barrymore
If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.
— Douglas Kennedy
There is one thing in this good old world that is positively sure - happiness is for all who strive to be happy - and those who laugh are happy. Everybody is eligible - you - me - the other fellow. Happiness is fundamentally a state of mind - not a state of body.
— Douglas Fairbanks
As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.
— Dorothea Dix
You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.
— Donatella Versace
Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
I like to write from a slightly sad or complicated place. But with a sense of hope and happiness at the same time.
— Eliot Sumner
The eternal God - the infinite Jehovah - has done all he could do - even to the sacrificing his own Son - to provide a way for man's happiness, and yet they reject him, hate him, and laugh him to scorn!
— Elijah Parish Lovejoy
The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.
— Eleonora Duse
I'd rather be a face for happiness and doing things that you have a passion for, rather than faking it and pretending like I'm this face of women's basketball, when I can't stand the sport at all.
— Elena Delle Donne
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
— Elbert Hubbard
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.
— Edward St Aubyn
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
— Edmund Burke
I will continue to be a big fan of Manchester City, to whom I wish all the best and many more trophies and happiness in the future.
— Edin Dzeko
Happiness is an inside job.
— Edd Byrnes
Even when there are times that we're not happy, happiness will creep in.
— Dyan Cannon
I think a lot of people think I'm either unintelligent because I'm a very happy person and I have a lot of energy or that it's a fake happiness, like fake energy. I completely understand that because it's a lot to handle, and I am a very emotional human being.
— Dove Cameron
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
— Douglas Horton
Unhappiness is something we are never taught about; we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.
— Douglas Coupland
The mindset of chasing that next #1 record doesn't exist for me anymore. It's more about being a well-rounded entertainer than being a pop artist. Obviously, it would be wonderful to have a hit record but I don't base my happiness on that anymore. It's about the accomplishment of a project that satisfies me. I just want to enjoy the ride.
— Donny Osmond
Fashion is all about happiness. It's fun. It's important. But it's not medicine.
What an uncertain thing, marriage - what an elusive thing, happiness!
Anguish over the loss of a loved one or feelings of helplessness have complex roots. But in the end, they make you feel bad because they adjust your brain's chemistry. Happiness and its opposite are both electro-chemical reactions; those reactions are temporary and ineffable and could even have hidden benefits.
— Eliot Schrefer
The purpose of a moral philosophy is not to look delightfully strange and counterintuitive or to provide employment to bioethicists. The purpose is to guide our choices toward life, health, beauty, happiness, fun, laughter, challenge, and learning.
— Eliezer Yudkowsky
One way to express choice is through the market. Well-functioning markets provide choices and, ultimately, the ability to express one's pursuit for happiness.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.
— Elaine Stritch
I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
— Edward Gibbon
Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.
When you reach the moment to score, it is like liberating different emotions such as joy, happiness, and also satisfaction.
Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
— Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
— Eckhart Tolle
So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.
— Duncan Sheik
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
— Douglas William Jerrold
To buy happiness is to sell soul.
The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
— Doug Larson
Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.
— Donna Rice
