10 George Bernard Shaw Quotes on Happiness

George Bernard Shaw quotes on happiness

3. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

55. This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

61. A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

78. At every one of those concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. Well, there is the same thing in heaven. A number of people sit there in glory, not because they are happy, but because they think they owe it to their position to be in heaven.

80. But Heaven cannot be described by metaphor. Thither I shall go presently, because there I hope to escape at last from lies and from the tedious, vulgar pursuit of happiness, to spend my eons in contemplation.

109. There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to get it.

124. Happiness and beauty are by-products.

177. The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

185. Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.

238. There is no love sincerer than the love of food.[1]