Albert Camus Happiness Quotations

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.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

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.

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.

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 Edipus, 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.

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless.

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

Betrayal answers betrayal, the mask of love is answered by the disappearance of love.

When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.

I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world.

Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire.

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

... 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.

Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

But it takes a lot of money to live freely by the sea.

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.

The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

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.

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.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

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.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life.

Find your happiness in yourself.

Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a belovedperson, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken thatlight on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought ofthe unhappiness and night you cast, by the mere fact of living, in thehearts you encounter.

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.