It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

I'd rather be mad than feel pleasure.

I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.

I do not like the idea of happiness — it is too momentary — I would say that I was always busy and interested in something — interest has more meaning to me than the idea of happiness.

Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

I'd rather take a major financial hit being honest than get rich by lying.

I don't think it would actually make you happier to be told you were right about this," he said finally.
"I don't want to be happy," Dahl said. "I just want to know.

Don't seek happiness. If you seek it, you won't find it, because seeking is the antithesis of happiness.

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

Don't wish me happiness — I don't expect to be happy; it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor — I will need them all.

I'd rather hear a truth that'll make me cry than a lie that'll make me smile!

Would I have been happier? Maybe. But then, happiness was overrated.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.