I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it comes before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later - yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

— Ludwig van Beethoven

I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy.

— Olly Murs

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

— Andy Warhol

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

— Saint Augustine

I never wanted to be rich or successful or famous. I just wanted to be happy and have fun.

— Donna Leon

In my life I've gone through a lot of really hard times. I went through depression and had so many challenges that I overcame. And I overcame because I just decided to be happy.

— Lilly Singh

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

— John Ruskin

I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.

— J. K. Simmons

I say to the young, be happy that you were born in Italy because of the beauty of the human capital, both masculine and feminine, of this country... No other country has such human capital.

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

— Samuel Johnson