Quotes About Contentment

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.

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.

There was pleasure in Paradise but no excitement.

a man possessed with peace is always smiling

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.

Dogs are our link to Paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.

They talk on about death, about boredom, they drink wine, they laugh, they have a good time, they are happy.

La felicidad es el deseo de repetir.

Ljudsko vrijeme se ne okre?e u krugu, ve? juri po pravoj liniji naprijed. To je razlog zašto ?ovjek ne može biti sretan, jer je sre?a ?ežnja za ponavljanjem.

and she thinks, almost joyfully, that it's fine this way because the truth is finally revealed: she feels no need to understand him or to have him understand her.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come

Wer den Ort verlassen will, an dem er lebt, der ist nicht glücklich.

TekdüzeliÄŸi mutluluk üretirdi, s?k?nt? deÄŸil.

They were happy not in spite of their sadness but thanks to it.

Cel care doreÈ™te s?-È™i p?r?seasc? locul în care tr?ieÈ™te nu e un om fericit.

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.

The greatest adventure of our lives is the absence of adventure.

La persona que desea abandonar el lugar en donde vive no es feliz

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden

Sentia a mesma estranha felicidade, a mesma estranha tristeza. A tristeza queria dizer: estamos na última paragem. A felicidade queria dizer: estamos os dois juntos. A tristeza era a forma, e a felicidade era o conteúdo. A felicidade preenchia o espaço da tristeza.

Je ne cherche pas à jouir, je cherche le bonheur, et jouir sans le bonheur n'est pas jouir.

pleasure without happiness is not pleasure.

Quella tristezza voleva dire: siamo all'ultima stazione. Quella felicità voleva dire: siamo insieme. La tristezza era la forma e la felicità il contenuto. La felicità riempiva lo spazio della tristezza.