“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”
More from Albert Camus on Happiness
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
“It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”
“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.”
“Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary.”
Others on Happiness
Dalai Lama
12 quotes“Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Jane Austen
10 quotes“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
Anne Frank
8 quotes“Whoever is happy will make others happy.”
Alexandre Dumas
6 quotes“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
Aristotle
6 quotes“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
Leo Tolstoy
6 quotes“Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness”
Anton Chekhov
5 quotes“Even in Siberia there is happiness.”
Charles Schulz
5 quotes“Happiness is loving your enemies.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
5 quotes“We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves.”
Bertrand Russell
5 quotes“Man needs for his happiness not only the enjoyment of this or that but hope and enterprise and change.”
George Santayana
5 quotes“To be happy you must have taken the measure of your powers, tasted the fruits of your passion, and learned your place in...”
John Stuart Mill
5 quotes“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”