Transient Bliss Quotes

Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.

A happy but miserable state in which man finds himself from time to time; sometimes he believes he is happy by loving, then suddenly he finds how miserable he is. It is all joy, it sweetens life, but it does not last. It comes and goes, but when it is active, there is no greater virtue, because it makes one supremely happy.

Happy. And then I got afraid that it would vanish as quickly as it came. That it was accidental-- that I didn't deserve it. It's like this very, very nice car crash that never ends.

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.

The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.

All our sweetest hours fly fastest.

The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out.

Yesterday, happiness came in suddenly, as it used to, and remained for a moment in the great, dark, silent drawing room.