Quote of Albert Camus - But what is happiness except the...

Biography - Albert Camus:

French philosopher, author, and journalist. Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).
Born: 1913 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

Quote

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

Translation

(French, German)

Mais qu'est-ce que le bonheur si ce n'est la simple harmonie entre l'homme et la vie qu'il mène?”
Albert Camus

Doch was ist Glück, wenn nicht die einfache Harmonie zwischen einem Menschen und dem Leben, das er führt?”
Albert Camus

Quotes about life:

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Faust: A Tragedy

Man arrives a novice at every age of life.”
Nicolas Chamfort - Maximes et pensées

There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

To live means to love, but above all, to love life.”
Blanche Pierson

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
Mark Twain - Quotation of uncertain origin

My life is my message.”
Mahatma Gandhi

life

All about life...

Quotes about happiness:

I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.”
Voltaire - Letter to the Abbé Trublet

Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.”
Victor Hugo - Les deux trouvailles de Gallus

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.”
Gaston Bachelard - La Psychanalyse du feu

Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove.”
Jeremy Bentham

happiness

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
Epicurus

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.”
Jean de La Bruyere - Les Caractères

All about happiness...

Quotes for: harmony:

Out of clutter find simplicity ; From discord find harmony; In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein

Harmony between two individuals is never granted - it has to be conquered indefinitely.”
Simone de Beauvoir

From things that differ comes the most beautiful harmony.”
Heraclitus of Ephesus

harmony

Wisdom is harmony.”
Novalis - Fragments

It is doubtless a fine harmony when doing and saying go together.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

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Albert Camus also said...

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus - L'Été

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.”
Albert Camus - Chroniques

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
Albert Camus - The Plague

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privilege but of responsibilities.”
Albert Camus

Absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.”
Albert Camus

I revolt, therefore I am.”
Albert Camus - L'Été

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