"Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak."
― August Strindberg
Topic(s): Happiness
― August Strindberg
More From August Strindberg
- "Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view."
- "People who keep dogs are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves."
- "That is the thankless position of the father in the family – the provider for all, and the enemy of all."
More In Happiness
- "Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness."― Baltasar Gracian
- "The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world."― Joseph Butler
- "Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided."― Alphonse Karr