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Happiness Quotes by Albert Camus

69 Happiness quotes by Albert Camus

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Albert Camus writes that true happiness comes from within, not from waiting for someone else. He contrasts the accessibility of heroism with the difficulty of finding joy in a world that can feel intolerable. The quotes also explore how fate, liberty, and even sorrow shape our sense of happiness.

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Men die and they are not happy.

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

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Find your happiness in yourself.

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Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

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“It may be shameful to be happy by oneself.”

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Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal.

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Happiness too is inevitable.

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There is no shame in preferring happiness.

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

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“Am I happy or unhappy? It’s not a very important question.”

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“Happiness is often only a pity for one's own misfortune.”

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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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There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.

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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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Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about.

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

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Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing…

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The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is…

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... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we…

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“And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a…

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You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s…

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“You see, Mersualt, all the misery and cruelty of our civilisation can be measured by this one stupid axiom: happy nations have…

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... one cannot be happy in exile or in oblivion. One cannot always be a stranger. I want to return to my…

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“Not that one must be an animal, but I find no meaning in the happiness of angels. I know simply that this…

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“When one has once had the good luck to love intensely, life is spent in trying to recapture that ardor and that…

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All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,…

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We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness…

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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…

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He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to…

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

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“Actually the contents of these books mattered little. What did matter was what they first felt when they went into the library,…

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“I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most…

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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…

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“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not…

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All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,…

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“What I'm sure of is that you can't be happy without money. That's all. I don't like superficiality and I don't like…

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“I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness.”

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Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

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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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What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

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The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

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Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

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I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.”

You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake…

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the…