Forget Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one…

— Stefan Zweig

The memory of joy is no longer joy; the memory of pain is pain still.

— Lord Byron

“Now I can lean into joy, even when it makes me feel tender and vulnerable. In fact, I expect tender and vulnerable. Joy is…

— Brené Brown

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

— Sam Storms

The pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist.

— Kevin Carter

“It is in the moments when the mind is most active and the fewest things are forgotten that the most intense joys are experienced.…

— Bertrand Russell

The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.

— Theodor Reik

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

— Anonymous

“When we lose our tolerance for discomfort, we lose joy. In fact, addiction research shows us that an intensely positive experience is as likely…

— Brené Brown

Surely joy is the condition of life.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man cannot live without joy; therefore when he is deprived of true spiritual joys it is necessary that he become addicted to carnal pleasures.

— Thomas Aquinas

Always remember the destroyer of joy (physical pleasure): death.

— Babloo