Joys Quotes
642 Joys quotes by 489 unique authors
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Into the nothingness of scorn and noise, Into the living sea of waking dreams, Where there is neither sense of life or joys, But the…
— John Clare
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Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace…
— Laurence Sterne
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Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would…
— Lewis Carroll
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My principle anguish and the source of all my joys and sorrows from my youth onward has been the incessant, merciless battle between the spirit…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys.
— Albert Camus
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One minute. You know nothing about him. He probably has his own joys and interests- wife, children, snug little home. That's where we practical fellows'-…
— E. M. Forster
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The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a…
— Susan Sontag
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The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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You are an ocean in a drop of dew, all the universes in a thin sack of blood. What are these pleasures then, these joys,…
— Unknown Author
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l'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination gave me infinite…
— Gerard De Nerval
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The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The man who loves to lose himself in a crowd enjoys feverish…
— Charles Baudelaire
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For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.
— Daniel Defoe
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These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Friendship is one of the sweetest joys of life. Many might have failed beneath the bitterness of their trial had they not found a friend.
— Charles Spurgeon
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time is a terrible thing because it erases joys and pains at the same time.
— Gosho Aoyama
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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea,…
— Joseph Conrad
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In the words of the late Francis Crick...You, your joys and your sorrows, your memories and your ambitions, your sense of personal identity and free…
— Mary Roach
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She died that night. Her last breath took her soul, I saw it in my dream. I saw her soul leave her body as she…
— Garth Stein
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But life's joys are only joys if they can be shared.
— Ravi Zacharias
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a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he…
— Jack Kerouac
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And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')
— William Blake
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The response to war is to live like brothers and sisters. The response to injustice is to share. The response to despair is a limitless…
— Jean Vanier
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Only in our darkest hour do we find the light. Humans are destructive by nature. The world is lacking balance. Terrors are beginning to triumph…
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true…
— Alberto Manguel
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