"The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning..." - Quote by Carl Jung
The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced and contrasted and compared to sadness. In comparing how an experience could have been worse we develop gratitude and happiness, while if we compare it how it could have been better we develop bitterness and sadness.
More by Carl Jung
More on Happiness
“To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.”
“There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness.”
“But what are years, what are months!" he would exclaim. "Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness.”
More on Sadness
“In the deepest heart of all of us there is a corner in which the ultimate mystery of things works sadly.”
“I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much”
“After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be ours, but I know the bell has tolled this evening. The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.”