Temporary Bliss Quotes

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

Even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable.

Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.

All earthly joy begins pleasantly, but at the end it gnaws and kills.

I knew that it wouldn’t last. It was just a moment, a perfect moment, as time stood still and fleetingly everything fell back into its proper place.

She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short.

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

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

Let us leave our old friend in one of those moments of unmixed happiness which, if we seek them, there are ever some, to cheer our transitory existence here. There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.

It's only before realities set in that we can treasure our delusions.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

If you are lucky, you have your moment. But it is never more than a moment. You have to enjoy it while it lasts.

I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that, it's a moment of happiness. Almost every day contains at least one moment of happiness.

Nothing out there will ever satisfy you except temporarily and superficially, but you may need to experience many disappointments before you realize that truth

Although wealth may not bring happiness, the immediate prospect of it provides a wonderfully close imitation.

The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so.

And, of course, there are the perfect day, perfect moment, perfect life dreams that come sometimes and make a person hit the snooze button for hours, trying to go back to sleep and make the perfect moments last.

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

When you get to the holidays, if you think that the holidays will be forever, you just take it for granted. But, if you know that you have just three days at the beach, you will be so happy to be there, every day.

There are moments when you feel as if you have been blessed for a while, moments when you think this is perfect, moments when you start to believe that even for an hour, even for a year, it might all happen. So I'm determined to keep making it get better and better.

Being hummed at by someone with magic hands while they knead your neck is good for the soul, but it won't make you giggle for days afterwards. In fact, the second the smiley therapist stops and says, 'You can put your robe on now, the hour is up,' the joy and wonder sort of leaves the room.

I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.

Tranquillity hides in small spaces, and when found needs to be treasured, because you know it's a phantom that will slip away again.

There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize the hour of enjoyment they procure, but we must not separate it from the price at which it was purchased.