Joy Quote by C.S. Lewis

“I sometimes wonder if all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.”

— C.S. Lewis

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

— C. S. Lewis

I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

— C S Lewis

“Joy is like sex – it begins and ends. I want pleasure. I want to be contended, but happiness? I no longer fall into…

— Paulo Coelho

“The joy that is of God is not opposed to earthly pleasures. Rather it infuses them with a foundation of meaning.”

— William Sloane Coffin

“I was still young and the whole world of beauty was opening before me, my own officious obstructions were often swept aside and, startled…

— C.S. Lewis

“As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so sex with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.”

— Helen Keller

“technological society has succeeded in multiplying occasions of pleasure, yet has found it very difficult to engender joy.”

— Pope Francis

“Joy is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes.”

— David Brooks

“Who is to say that pleasure is useless?”

— Charles Eames

“There can be as much joy of giving pleasure as to receive it.”

— Anonymous

“Maybe a certain degree of deprivation was necessary to the experience of pleasure, just as suffering was an integral part of joy.”

— Claire Holden Rothman