„These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder.“

— William Shakespeare

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„This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.“
— T.S. Eliot
„It wasn't a thing I had consciously missed, but having it now reminded me of the joy of it; that drowsy intimacy in which a man's body is accessible to you as your own, the strange shapes and textures of it like a sudden extension of your own limbs.“
— Diana Gabaldon
„To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies — the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said — there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.“
— H.L. Mencken
„Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.“
— Joseph Campbell