A premature death does not only rob one of the countless instances where one would have experienced pleasure, it also saves one from the innumerable instances where one would have experienced pain.

Being alive does not necessarily lead to feeling alive.

Tears of joy and tears of sorrow sometimes have very different causes, but always have the very same properties.

We are so addicted to and desperate for happiness that we are often happy for other people.

We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.

We have glorified wealth and freedom so much that it is impossible for most of us to truly believe that a man can truly be happy in a shack or within the confines of a prison cell.

Some people wish they were as happy as or happy like some people think they are.