Ephemeral Happiness Quotes

#1. Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. Some get stoned, some get strange, but sooner or later it all gets real.

Neil Young

#3. The sculptor Frosty Myers and I met when we were bidding against each other at an auction. He's an eccentric, a liberal with a collection of rifles, and his stuff is big art. We share a love of tractors. I'm trading him one for a piece of art.

Mark Ruffalo

#4. Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

Orson Scott Card

#5. The nature of everything is illusory and ephemeral, Those with dualistic perception regard suffering as happiness, Like they who lick the honey from a razor's edge. How pitiful they who cling strongly to concrete reality: Turn your attention within, my heart friends.5

Sogyal Rinpoche

#6. Remember, pain and misery
are transient and ephemeral
but love has the healing power,
which is eternal.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Life is eternal but death is ephemeral and transitional.

Debasish Mridha

#8. For fourteen days, I was unspeakably happy. Unspeakably but not absolutely because, for me, joy never comes without the grief of knowing it is only ephemeral. All happiness carries with it the seed of its own end.

Gabrielle Wittkop

#9. When in doubt, leave it out.

Joshua Bloch

#10. If the only side effect of the criticism is that you will feel bad about the criticism, then you have to compare that bad feeling with the benefits you'll get from actually doing something worth doing. Being remarkable is exciting, fun, profitable, and great for your career. Feeling bad wears off.

Seth Godin

#11. Life is eternal and, at the same time, ephemeral.

Debasish Mridha

#12. ...a leering, sneering obscene little harpy...

Virginia Woolf

#13. The moon belongs to the lovers? Yes! But it also belongs to the lonely! It belongs to anyone who needs it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. It's not reality that makes people happy; good thoughts make people happy.

Debasish Mridha

#15. It's the business of movies, it's the fights that go along with the level of budget, and more than anything, it's the creative constipation of having to live with one idea for two or three years. It's just not that fun.

Matt Stone

#16. To regret anything is to regret myself.For if I plucked out these painful pieces, I'd be someone else, living another life.

Ian Ballard

#17. How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.

Fiona Apple

#18. A letter is a most hazardous business, the written word allows no indecision, either distance or familiarity will emphasize the tone the letter establishes, and you end up with a relationship that is fiction

Jose Saramago

#19. While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

Dalai Lama

#20. Stay diagnostic even as you take action.

Ronald A. Heifetz