Creation Quote by Andre Gide

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?

— Andre Gide

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

— Andre Gide

The highest happiness of man ... is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

— Desiderius Erasmus

There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Albert Camus

“Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

There is no such thing as happiness. Life bends joy and pain, beauty and ugliness, in such a way that no one may isolate…

— Jean Toomer

“What do you have against happiness?” said the man. “Nothing, I guess.” “Then don’t talk about things you don’t know. There’s no reason you…

— R. Janvier del Valle

“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.”

— Andre Gide

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

— Hermann Hesse

But happiness is brittle, and if men and circumstances don't destroy it, it is threatened by ghosts.

— Marguerite Yourcenar