Joys Quotes

642 Joys quotes by 489 unique authors

[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If… — Elizabeth von Arnim
How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness… — Galen Beckett
These sudden joys have sudden endings. They burn up in victory like fire and gunpowder. — William Shakespeare
The Lord did not create suffering. Pain and death came into the world with the fall of man. But after man had chosen suffering in… — Thomas Merton
Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is… — Jonathan Franzen
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape – into different… — Julian Barnes
Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even when they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the joys… — Franz Kafka
Because reading is one of the joys of life, and once you begin, you can't stop, and you've got so many stories to look forward… — Benedict Cumberbatch
Watch the sunrise at least once a year, put a lot of marshmallows in your hot chocolate, lie on your back and look at the… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection… — R A Salvatore
The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others. — Bryant H. McGill
What’s the good of these great fragile fits of enthusiasm, these jaded jumps of joys? We know nothing anymore, but the dead stars; we gaze… — Andre Breton
The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all... — William Joyce
To be able to talk to your heart’s content about a book you like with someone who feels the same way about it is one… — Haruki Murakami
One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want. — Philip Sington
I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to… — Peter De Vries
Our dreams have been doctored.We belong no where. We sail unanchored on troubled seas.We may never be allowed ashore. Our sorrows will never be sad… — Arundhati Roy
Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing… — Frank Herbert
To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day… — Anne Bronte
He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was… — James Salter
Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Come, my Celia, let us prove, While we can, the sports of love, Time will not be ours for ever, He, at length, our good… — Ben Jonson
Even such isTime, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Who in… — Walter Raleigh
It is strange what a contempt men have for the joys that are offered them freely. — Georges Duhamel

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