Momentary Pleasure Quotes

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Like all sweet dreams, it will be brief, but brevity makes sweetness, doesn't it?

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

You lose the world for a glance? Of course you do. That is what the world is for: to lose under the right circunstances.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

What is happy? I think happy's in the moment. I don't think everybody can be happy all the time.

I'm not asking for forever, Tamani said. Yet. I'm just asking for a moment.

It's better to enjoy life - selection is a temporary thing.

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

I take each thing as it comes and appreciate everything that's in front of me now because people in this industry are so fixated on the next thing that they don't enjoy the moment. It passes you by, and all of a sudden, it's over.

The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience.

I just live in the moment. Or try to.

Most of us wake up every day and make decision that will make us happy, and generally decisions that will make us happy right then in the moment or that day. We are not really on a truth quest.

When you do something in the moment, it may just be for that stage, that audience, that head space that you're in.

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

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.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

I love magazines because they're so dispensable, and they're so quickly consumed. In that way, they're quite honest. They're unashamed about how small an amount of time they're trying to keep our attention.

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

Two bubbles found they had rainbows on their curves. They flickered out saying: "It was worth being a bubble, just to have held that rainbow thirty seconds.

You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it.

I don't have a favorite part. My current part is my favorite part. And when I do the next thing, that will be my favorite part.