“What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.”
More from André Gide on Happiness
“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.”
“Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.”
“To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.”
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.”
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”
Alexandre Dumas
6 quotes“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
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.”
Albert Camus
5 quotes“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking...”
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...”
Dale Carnegie
5 quotes“Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.”