Whenever I get happy, I always have a terrible feeling.

I’m really afraid to feel happy because it never lasts

I'm so afraid. Because I'm so profoundly happy. Happiness like this is frightening...They only let you this happy if they're preparing to take something from you.

Too much happiness always overflows into tears of sorrow.

Too excited to be genuinely happy

The desire to feel happy or think positively all the time hinders many people's authentic existence. It lowers resilience.

too much happiness always overflowed into tears of sorrow.

To be afraid of sorrow is to be afraid of joy also.

It is the very pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness.

The happier people can be, the unhappier they are.

It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!

What thing so good which not some harm may bring?
Even to be happy is a dangerous thing.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

Our idea of happiness may be the very thing that’s preventing us from being happy.