Catastrophes Quote by Ernest Dimnet

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

— Ernest Dimnet

Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.

— Albert Camus

“Many lives are disrupted by tragic accidents, and even the most fortunate are subjected to stresses of various kinds. Yet such blows do not…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration.

— Pat Conroy

All happiness is a work of art: the smallest error falsifies it, the slightest hesitation alters it, the least heaviness spoils it, the slightest…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

— Andre Gide

Extreme happiness begets tragedy

— Anonymous

“We do not hold the belief that this earth is a realm of misery where man is doomed to destruction. We do not think…

— Ayn Rand

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experience.

— George Santayana

How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

— Paul Sweeney

One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones

— Finn Juhl

Surfeits of happiness are fatal.

— Baltasar Gracian