"... there are two types of happiness..." - Quote by Albert Camus
... there are two types of happiness and I have chosen that of the murderers. For I am happy. There was a time when I thought I had reached the limit of distress. Beyond that limit, there is a sterile and magnificent happiness.
More by Albert Camus
“The absurd is a shadow cast over everything we do and even if we try to live life as if it has meaning as if there are reasons for doing things the absurd will linger in the back of our minds as a nagging doubt that perhaps there is no point.”
“I always found misogyny vulgar and stupid, and I found almost all the women I have known to be my betters. However, placing them so high, I used them more often than I served them. How does one make sense of this?”
“When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.”
More on Happiness
“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.”
“There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.”
“She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.”
More on Suffering
“All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.”
“Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night.”
“Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.”