“Beyond the curve of his days he glimpsed neither superhuman happiness nor eternity--happiness was human, eternity ordinary.”
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.”
“Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.”
“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.”
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”
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.”
André Gide
5 quotes“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
5 quotes“Happiness is a butterfly which when pursued is always beyond our grasp but if you will sit down quietly may alight...”
Albert Schweitzer
5 quotes“One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve...”