JOY QUOTES

quotations about joy

Joy quote

He who has once been happy is for aye
Out of destruction's reach. His fortune then
Holds nothing secret; and Eternity,
Which is a mystery to other men,
Has like a woman given him its joy.

WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT

With Esther


Grief can take care of itself; but to get the full value of a joy you must have someone to divide it with.

MARK TWAIN

The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson


All recurring joy is pain refined.

AMY LOWELL

"A Fixed Idea", A Dome of Many-coloured Glass


The very society of joy redoubles it; so that whilst it lights upon my friend it rebounds upon myself, and the brighter his candle burns the more easily will it light mine.

ROBERT SOUTH

attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing


A man who lives a virtuous life and in the pursuit of knowledge, may have great joy with only coarse rice to eat, water to drink, and his bended arm for a pillow.

CONFUCIUS

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Confucius


I have drunken deep of joy,
And I will taste no other wine tonight.

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

The Cenci


For present joys are more to flesh and blood
Than a dull prospect of a distant good.

JOHN DRYDEN

The Hind and the Panther


Joy is our goal, our destiny. We cannot know who we are except in joy.

MARIANNE WILLIAMSON

A Woman's Worth


Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day
And dances by false glare at night;
But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves
To spread its wings in Nature's light.

WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

Joy and Pleasure


The fine art of Life is to make
Another Soul vibrate with a song of joy.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"The Song of the Soul"


There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.

NICHOLAS SPARKS

A Walk to Remember

Tags: Nicholas Sparks


Joyful, all ye nations, rise.
Join the triumph of the skies.

CHARLES WESLEY

"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"


Joy and sorrow are like milk and cookies. That's how well they go together.

NEIL GAIMAN

American Gods


When you are joyful, when you say yes to life and have fun and project positivity all around you, you become a sun in the center of every constellation, and people want to be near you.

SHANNON L. ALDER

attributed, goodreads


Remember the wheel is always in motion, and the spoke that is uppermost will be under, and therefore mix trembling always with your joy.

PHILIP HENRY

The Life of the Rev. Philip Henry


Within your own house dwells the treasury of joy; so why do you go begging from door to door?

SUFI PROVERB


And shall I clutch at dear departing things
While leaf and tree in silent splendor part?
Go, little joys! and welcome, fluttering wings
That brush my clinging sorrows from my heart!

KARLE WILSON BAKER

"Heart's October", Blue Smoke


Joy to the world
All the boys and girls, now,
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me.

HOYT ACTON

"Joy to the World"


Joy is the best makeup.

ANNE LAMOTT

Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith


Joy is the vital air of the soul.

HENRI-FREDERIC AMIEL

Journal Intime