“Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.”

“...everybody happy and no one ever sad or angry, and every one belonging to every one else...”

“But, Bernard, you're saying the most awful things.''Don't you wish you were free, Lenina?''I don't know what you mean. I am free. Free to have the most wonderful time. Everybody's happy nowadays.'He laughed, 'Yes, "Everybody's happy nowadays." We begin giving children that at five. But wouldn't you like to be free to e happy in some other way, Lenina? In your own way, for example; not in everybody else's way.”

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”

“Happiness is a hard master--particularly other people's happiness. A much harder master, if one isn't conditioned to accept it unquestionably, than truth.”

“Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?”

“God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make a choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.”