Joyless Quotes

36 quotes by 35 authors

Postmodernism is silly and joyless at the same time. — Walter Darby Bannard
Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital… — Hartley Coleridge
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades… — John Ortberg
But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness;… — Truman Capote
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire… — George Eliot
But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote… — David Foster Wallace
If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will… — Charlotte Bronte
I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could… — Soren Kierkegaard
Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured. Twists people into joyless mannequins that fear and hate, while culture plunges into the abyss. — Alan Moore
(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed… — George Orwell
My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility. — Robert Fripp
When we quit making progress, become immersed in the quagmire of joyless situations, we feel stuck and become frustrated and upset. — Kishore Bansal
The joyless Christian reveals himself by having negative thoughts and talk about others, in a lack of concern for others welfare, and a failure to… — John Macarthur
Children of her type contrive the purest philosophies. Ada had worked out her own little system. Hardly a week had elapsed since Vans arrival when… — Hussein Nishah
Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless. — Marlene Dietrich

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