Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops. Goethe.
Happiness is a chimæra and suffering a reality. 40 Schopenhauer.
Happiness is "a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion." Quoted by Sterne.
Happiness is but a dream, and sorrow a reality. Voltaire.
Happiness is deceitful as the calm that precedes the hurricane, smooth as the water on the verge of the cataract, and beautiful as the rainbow, that smiling daughter of the storm. Arliss' Lit. Col.
Happiness is like the mirage in the desert; she tantalises us with a delusion that distance creates and that contiguity destroys. Arliss' Lit. Col.
Happiness is like the statue of Isis, whose 45 veil no mortal ever raised. Landor.
Happiness is matter of opinion, of fancy, in fact, but it must amount to conviction, else it is nothing. Chamfort.
Happiness is neither within us nor without us; it is the union of ourselves with God. Pascal.
Happiness is nothing but the conquest of God through love. Amiel.