Albert Camus Quotes About Happiness
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Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.
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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.
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I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness.
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The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation
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When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
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Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.
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All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
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There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for.
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Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
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For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still.
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A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.
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Find your happiness in yourself.
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... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.
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You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
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Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
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Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
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Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland
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