(1/4) "In a world where all is unstable, and nought can endure, but is swept onwards at once in the hurrying whirlpool of change; where a man, if he is to keep erect at all, must always be advancing and moving, like an acrobat on a rope--in such a world, happiness is..."
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(2/4) "... inconceivable. How can it dwell where, as Plato says, 'continual Becoming and never Being is the sole form of existence? In the first place, a man never' is happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks..."
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(3/4) "... will make him so; he seldom attains his goal, and when he does, it is only to be disappointed; he is mostly shipwrecked in the end, and comes into harbor with masts and rigging gone. And then, it is all one whether he has been happy or miserable; for his life was..."
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(4/4) "... never anything more than a present moment always vanishing; and now it is over."
--- Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Vanity of Existence
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You can't beat Arthur Schopenhauer when it comes to telling it like it is