Famous Quotes - Tags - Joy

  • ... how I understand that love of living, of being in this wonderful, astounding world even if... More
  • ... it is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be... More
  • ... while many people pride themselves, and with no exaggeration, on their ability to hear with... More
  • A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken. More
  • A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice,... More
  • A leaping tongue of bloom the scythe had spared
    Beside a reedy brook the scythe had... More
  • All the junk that goes with being human
    Drops away, hard rock wavers
    Even the heavy... More
  • Amid the tornadoed Atlantic of my being, do I myself still for ever centrally disport in mute... More
  • And happy lines! on which, with starry light,
    Those lamping eyes will deign sometimes to look, More
  • And if joy were not on the earth,
    There were an end of change and birth,
    And Earth and... More
  • And like a prophetess of May
    Strew’d flowers upon the barren way,
    Making the wintry... More
  • And now hath made me to his hand so right
    That in the manage myself takes delight. More
  • Anger kills both laughter and joy;
    What greater foe is there than anger? More
  • As this appalling ocean surrounds the verdant land, so in the soul of man there lies one insular... More
  • As with all children, the feeling that I was useful was perhaps the greatest joy I experienced. More
  • Be secret and exult,
    Because of all things known
    That is most difficult. More
  • Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause,
    So have we all, of joy. More
  • Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. More
  • Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our... More
  • Breathing with such suppression of the heart
    As joy delights in; and, with wise restraint More
  • But come what sorrow can,
    It cannot countervail the exchange of joy
    That one short minute... More
  • But never, till this happy hour,
    Was blest with such an evening-shower! More
  • But the heart refuses to be imprisoned; in its first and narrowest pulses it already tends... More
  • Can it be borne, this bodying-forth by wind
    Of joy my actions turn on, like a... More
  • Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape. More
  • Come, and trip it as ye go
    On the light fantastic toe,
    And in thy right hand lead with... More
  • Consequently I rejoice, having to construct something
    Upon which to rejoice More
  • Considering that, all hatred driven hence,
    The soul recovers radical innocence
    And learns... More
  • Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy. More
  • Cruelty is a mystery, and the waste of pain. But if we describe a word to compass these things, a... More
  • Cry joy that this witchlike midwife second
    Bullies into rough seas you so gentle
    And... More
  • Delight,—top-gallant delight is to him, who acknowledges no law or lord, but the Lord his God,... More
  • Earth and I gave you turquoise
    when you walked singing
    We lived laughing in my... More
  • Earth that bore with joyful ease
    Hemlock for Socrates,
    Earth that blossomed and was... More
  • Extreme happiness begets tragedy. More
  • For the discerning intellect of Man,
    When wedded to this goodly universe
    In love and holy... More
  • Frivolous sorrow is folly. Frivolous enjoyment is not. More
  • God rest you merry, gentlemen,
    Let nothing you dismay,
    For Jesus Christ, our... More
  • Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to... More
  • Happy ye leaves! whenas those lily hands,
    Which hold my life in their dead-doing... More
  • Have you ever been up in your plane at night, alone, somewhere, 20,000 feet above the ocean?...... More
  • Heaven give thee joy!
    What cannot be eschewed must be embraced. More
  • Here choose I. Joy be the consequence! More
  • How delicious is pleasure after torment! More
  • I declare
    Two lineages electrify the air,
    That will like pennons from a mast
    Fly over... More
  • I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I... More
  • I see ... a multitude ... in transport ... of joy. More
  • I see you boys of summer in your ruin.
    Man in his maggot’s barren.
    And boys are full... More
  • I wish you all joy of the worm. More
  • If he be sick with joy, he’ll recover without physic. More
  • If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields... More
  • Ijustwantto, like, dance. I just want to like, you know, put on some Shirelles. I just, I want to... More
  • In that sweet mood when pleasure loves to pay
    Tribute to ease; and, of its joy... More
  • It gives me wonder great as my content
    To see you here before me. More
  • It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible... More
  • It was far in the sameness of the wood;
    I was running with joy on the Demon’s... More
  • I’ll
    vacuum up my stale hair, I’ll
    pay all my neighbors’ bad debts,... More
  • Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how;
    Everything is happy now,
    Everything is upward... More
  • Joy goes as deep as sorrow, but leaves less of itself behind. More
  • Joy has no cause:
    Though cut to pieces with a knife,
    Cannot keep silence. What else... More
  • Joy is prayer—Joy is strength—Joy is love—Joy is a net of love by which you can catch... More
  • Joy is the knock of dust, Cadaver’s shoot
    Of bud of Adam through his boxy shift.... More
  • Joy may you have and gentle hearts content
    Of your loves couplement:
    And let faire Venus,... More
  • Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity. More
  • Joy, shipmate, joy!
    (Pleas’d to my soul at death I cry,)
    Our life is closed, our life... More
  • Joy, the, ‘well . . . joyfulness of
    joy’M’many years
    I had not known it,’ the... More
  • let the young Lambs bound
    As to the tabor’s sound! More
  • looking for joy, some joy
    not to be known outside it
    two by two in the ark of
    the... More
  • Many pains are imaginary, but all joys are real. More
  • My lips are sweet, inspired with Stella’s kiss. More
  • No fountain from its rocky cave
    E’er tripped with foot so free;
    She seemed as happy as... More
  • No place of grace for those who avoid the face
    No time to rejoice for those who walk among... More
  • not that horror was not, not that the killings did not continue,
    not that I thought there was... More
  • Now no joy but lacks salt
    That is not dashed with pain
    And weariness and fault; More
  • Now shall my inward joys arise,
    And burst into a song;
    Almighty love inspires my... More
  • O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
    He chortled in his joy. More
  • O joy! that in our embers
    Is something that doth live, More
  • O Joys! infinite sweetness! with what flowers
    And shoots of glory my soul breaks and buds! More
  • O my soul’s joy,
    If after every tempest come such calms,
    May the winds blow till they... More
  • O past! O happy life! O songs of joy!
    In the air, in the woods, over fields,
    Loved!... More
  • O unworn world enrapture me, enrapture me in a web
    Of fabulous grass and eternal voices by a... More
  • O, but Everyone
    Was a bird; and the song was wordless; the singing will never be
    done. More
  • Of highest wish, I wish you so much bliss,—
    Hundreds of years you Stella’s feet may kiss! More
  • Oh! shipmates! on the starboard hand of every woe, there is a sure delight; and the higher the... More
  • Oh, if thy pride did not our joys control,
    What world of loving wonders shouldst thou... More
  • On me your voice falls as they say love should,
    Like an enormous yes. My Crescent City
    Is... More
  • One of those heavenly days that cannot die; More
  • Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. More
  • Our goal should be to achieve joy. More
  • Poor vaunt of life indeed,
    Were man but formed to feed
    On joy, to solely seek and find... More
  • Rarely, rarely comest thou,
    Spirit of Delight! More
  • Sae luely, luely, cam she in
    Saie luely was she gaen;
    And wi’ her a’ my simmer... More
  • Seeing the locus of joy as the gate
    of a city, or as a lych-gate ... More
  • Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. More
  • So forth those joyous Birdes did passe along,
    Adowne the Lee, that to them murmurde... More
  • So that the old joy, modest as cake, as wine and friendship
    Will stay with us at the last,... More
  • So while I think of it,
    let me paint a thank-you on my palm
    for this God, this laughter... More
  • Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything... More
  • Stond who so list upon the Slipper toppe
    Of courtes estates, and lett me heare rejoyce; More
  • Suffering teaches us only that we suffer. Joy shows us which way to go. More

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