Transient Joy Quotes

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind, is available to us.

To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.

Thus also every keen pleasure is an error and an illusion, for no attained wish can give lasting satisfaction.

Man's pleasure is a short time growing And it falls to the ground As quickly.

Pleasure is oft a visitant; but pain Clings cruelly to us.

...nothing wonderful lasted forever. Joy was as fleeting as a shooting star that crossed the evening sky, ready to blink out at any moment.

My great day came and went, I do not know how. Because it did not pass through dawn when it came, nor through dusk when it went.

Troubles are as endless as pleasures are brief.

When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.

We never taste a perfect joy; our happiest successes are mixed with sadness.

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.

The happier the moment the shorter.

O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?

Sure, I can afford a nice car and a nice place, but this is not what brings me happiness. Now you're on a high, and people know you and things like that, but how many people will remember your name once it all stops and the money isn't raining from the sky?

In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds, The single bird, the obscure moon- The obscure moon lighting an obscure world Of thing that would never be quite expressed, Where you yourself were never quite yourself And did not want nor have to be.

Oh! my friend, when you feel bursting on your lips the vow of eternal love, do not be afraid to yield, but do not confound wine with intoxication; do not think the cup divine because the draft is of celestial flavor; do not be astonished to find it broken and empty in the evening.

The heart does not derive pure pleasure from what is impermanent.

For one quarter, Black Tiger lets me escape from my rotten existence for three glorious hours. Pretty good deal.

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

The pain we feel When someone leaves our life is in direct proportion to the joy they bring while a part of our life for a few moments. In my life you made me feel as if I truly meant something to someone

He thinks great folly, child,' said Aslan. "This world is bursting with life for these few days because the song with which I called it into life still hangs in the air and rumbles in the ground. It will not be so for long. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice. If I spoke to him, he would hear only growlings and roarings. Oh, Adam's son, how cleverly you defend yourself against all that might do you good!

I would have stayed forever within the garden of Re-mose's childhood, but time is a mother's enemy.

We're all making castles in the sand, wonderful tapestries, an exquisite corpse. But is it meaningful? No. It's dogs barking. It doesn't mean anything beyond our yelping, at the pain of being alive.

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

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