On happiness

From Simon Critchley:

Happiness is not a quantitative matter. It is rather a matter of the quality of one’s life and in what that quality consists. The most painful, but also the most joyous response came from Robert F., who is faced with terminal brain cancer. He writes, in an echo of Epicurus, with which I’d like to end:

If you’re religious, what’s beyond the act of dying is a better place; if you’re not religious, there is nothing. In either case there’s no need to worry. What matters is the journey between right now and that event.

Germane to the book I'm still wading through.