Quotes about Happiness
The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake... loved in spite of one's self.
- Victor Hugo
God can add nothing to the happiness of those who love, except to give them endless duration.
- Victor Hugo
Happiness and despair do not breathe the same air. A man in despair participates in the life of others from a great distance; he is almost unaware of their presence; he has lost any consciousness of his own existence; he is a thing of flesh and blood but feels that he is no longer real; he sees himself only as a dream.
- Victor Hugo
That I may carry on what I have begun, that I may do good, that I may be one day a grand and encouraging example that it may be said that there was finally some little happiness resulting from this suffering which I have undergone and this virtue to which I have returned!
- Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves — say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
- Victor Hugo
but the cat rejoices even over a lean mouse.
- Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake—let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self; t
- Victor Hugo
The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved
- Victor Hugo
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.
- Victor Hugo
Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one's painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.
- Milan Kundera
People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.
- Milan Kundera
Because I'm happy that you exist at all, Elisabeth. Perhaps I love you. Perhaps I love you very much. But probably just for this reason it would be better if we remain as we are. I think a man and a woman love each other all the more when they don't live together and when they know about each other only that they exist, and when they are grateful to each other for the fact that they exist and that they know they exist. And that alone is enough for their happiness.
- Milan Kundera