Quotes About Momentary Happiness

#1. He felt satisfied, and that sensation should have put him on his guard; happiness is a momentary trap that disguises stubborn problems and makes us feel more vulnerable than ever to the blind legitmacy of bad luck.

Carlos Fuentes

#2. The feeling or emotion of happiness or joy is always momentary, but it's only your imaginations, that extend your momentary happiness, for some more time.

Roshan Sharma

#3. I've certainly seen stats that if you have a woman director or a woman screenwriter, the number of female characters goes way up.

Emma Donoghue

#4. it was not even imaginative; it lives in my memory mainly as a period of humdrum, prosaic happiness and awakes none of the poignant nostalgia with which I look back on my much less happy boyhood. It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past. To

C.S. Lewis

#5. Hal finds he rather envies a man who feels he has something to explain his being fucked up, parents to blame it on.

David Foster Wallace

#6. Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.

James Frey

#7. In democratic times, enjoyment is keener than in aristocratic centuries, and above all the number of those who taste it is infinitely greater; but on the other hand, one must recognize that hopes and desires are more often disappointed, souls more arouse and more restive, and cares more burning.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#8. Remember, our kind protects you Normals from the Pures. We are the rope tied between man and super-beast. A rope forever dangling from the precipice.
I tap Zetania's shoulder and ask, "What's a precipice?"
"A cliff's edge," she whispers.
Precipice. Must be a French word.

Daven Anderson

#9. At the beach, life is different. A day moves not from hour to hour but leaps from mood to moment. We go with the currents, plan around the tides, follow the sun. We measure happiness by nothing we can hold, nothing we can catch. Everywhere, life is jumping and elusive and momentously momentary.

Sandy Gingras

#10. I am a career public servant. Until the aftermath of Benghazi, I loved every day of my job.

Greg Hicks

#11. They were two happy lovers among the crowd, and they came to suspect that love could be a feeling that was more relaxing and deep than the happiness, wild but momentary, of their secret nights.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#12. There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

Blaise Pascal

#13. It was a momentary laughter, in which our souls united. But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass, and that the effort to revive such happiness depletes it; that nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.

Andre Gide

#14. Events are transient, feelings are momentary, perception is optional and internalization is life long.

Debasish Mridha

#15. I was seized on the 8th of June, 1824, in consequence of the war with Bengal and, in company with Dr. Price, three Englishmen, one American, and one Greek, was thrown into the death prison at Ava, where we lay eleven months - nine months in three pairs and two months in five pairs of fetters.

Adoniram Judson

#16. I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.

Walter Mosley

#17. It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.

C.S. Lewis

#18. My writings are reflections of my momentary thoughts, imaginations, and love for you and life in this world as a whole.

Debasish Mridha

#19. I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary
you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#20. All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

Richard Von Krafft-Ebing

#21. Momentary happiness is worse than permanent misery.

Ahmed Mostafa

#22. Where else can we find happiness for a day other than from something that can offer momentary relief, something like the booze?

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#23. Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

Bertrand Russell

#24. Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

Ezra Taft Benson