Joy Quote by Byron Rufus Newton

“With heart at rest I climbed the citadel's Steep height, and saw the city as from a tower, Hospital, brothel, prison, and such hells,…

— Charles Baudelaire

“In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he discovered speakeasies…

— Frank McCourt

O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of…

— William Shakespeare

“Pretty soft!' he cried. 'To have to come and live in New York! To have to leave my little cottage and take a stuffy,…

— P.G. Wodehouse

“Out of that night and day of unconditional wrath, folks would've expected to see any city, if it survived, all newly reborn, purified by…

— Thomas Pynchon

“I am trying to describe these things not to relive them in my present boundless misery, but to sort out the portion of hell…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The wondrous moment of our meeting... Still I remember you appear Before me like a vision fleeting, A beauty's angel pure and clear. In…

— Alexander Pushkin

“Closed inside my compartment as if in a cubicle of some Egyptian tomb, I worked late into the night between New York and Chicago;…

— Marguerite Yourcenar

“Today I awoke from a sound sleep with curses of joy on my lips, with gibberish on my tongue, repeating to myself like a…

— Henry Miller

“Symptom Recital I do not like my state of mind; I'm bitter, querulous, unkind. I hate my legs, I hate my hands, I do…

— Dorothy Parker

“I wandered through various public rooms, glory below, gloom above: for the look of lust always is gloomy; lust is never quite sure--even when…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“On such a night,’ I thought, ‘were ill and good, Bright and unlovely; precious, tawdry, All mingled into one And pressed against my heart.”

— Irene Hunt