“The bitterness of joy lies in the knowledge that it cannot last. Nor should joy last beyond a certain season, for, after that season, even joy would become merely habit.”

“Season of Joy:
She asked me when the season of joy was supposed to end & I said I didn't really think there was an exact date, so we left the tree up till June that year.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

“But in our ignorance we emotionalise joy, beauty and love. We make feelings of them, personal interpretations based on our old emotions. We put our personal past on the present with the result that joy, beauty and love don't seem to last. But it's our emotional substitutes that don't last and we become bored, discontented and unhappy again. The sensation or knowledge of joy, beauty and love is of course still there but it's overwhelmed by these coarser feelings.”

Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer

“Extreme joy and extreme sorrow are indistinguishable beyond a certain point.”

Cornell Woolrich (1903–1968) American author and screenwriter

“Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States

“The joys of love… last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

“I remember being asked at various stages last season "Would you take 17th place now?". Come the last game of the season, the answer was definitely yes. At the start of the season, then the answer was probably yes. But looking back at the season as a whole, then the answer is probably between yes and no.”

Phil Brown (footballer) (1959) English association football player and manager

“To cleave that sea in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.”

Nikos Kazantzakis book Zorba the Greek

“Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.”

James Montgomery (1771–1854) British editor, hymn writer, and poet

“His death signified the passing of a certain approach. He was the last person who had the totally un-inhibited joy of driving a racing car.”

Gilles Villeneuve (1950–1982) Canadian racecar driver