Temporary Joy Quotes

Listen she said, everything ends, every single relationship you will ever have in your lifetime is going to end.... I'll die, you'll die, you'll get tired of each other. You don't always know how it's going to happen, but it is always going to happen. So stop trying to make everything permanent, it doesn't work. I want you to go out there and find some nice man you have no intention of spending the rest of your life with. You can be very, very happy with people you aren't going to marry.

Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?

Happiness is fleeting - I think that's the main lesson I have learned.

But, like all happiness, it did not last long.

He who laughs on Friday will weep on Sunday.

Some relationships aren't meant to be Great Love; they're meant to be like a hot fudge sundae--enjoyable but not something you can acually live on.

Dreaming was only nice while it lasted.

Few pleasures there are indeed without an aftertouch of pain, but that is the preservation which keeps them sweet.

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

On a soap, happiness never lasts for very long!

Here too it’s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror show… I’d gladly settle for a false impression, If it would last a little longer, though.

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

The secret of the enjoyment of pleasure is to know when to stop. Man doesn't learn this secret easily, but to shun pleasure altogether is cowardly avoidance of a difficult job. For we have to learn the art of enjoying things BECAUSE they are impermanent.

Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.

Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one.

How sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes even for a short time.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

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

Happiness ain't a thing in itself -it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant. And so, as soon as the novelty is over and the force of the contrast dulled, it ain't happiness any longer, and you have to get something fresh.

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

Success, I've come to realise, is fleeting so you shouldn't value it too much.

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.

The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.