- For present joys are more to flesh and blood
- Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDEN, The Hind and the Panther
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.
TANITH LEE, Delusion's Master
Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance it out on some unknown scale.
STEPHENIE MEYER, The Host
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