Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ourselves, that person seems at once to belong to a different universe, is surrounded with poetry, makes of our lives a vast expanse, quick with sensation, on which that person and ourselves are ever more or less in contact.

... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again.

Because happiness alone is good for the body; whereas sorrow develops the strength of the mind.

Much that for us is fraught with with happiness or misery, remains almost unnoticed by the rest of the world.

Was the happiness of knowing these girls really unattainable? It would certainly not have been the first happiness of that sort which I had abandoned all hope of ever enjoying?

People don't know when they are happy. They're never so unhappy as they think they are.

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same

How often is not the prospect of future happiness thus sacrificed to one's impatient insistence upon an immediate gratification, But his desire to know the truth was stronger, and seemed to him nobler than his desire for her.