Delight Quote by Denis Diderot

First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

— Denis Diderot

Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me…

— Anonymous

“Put out my eyes, and I can see you still; slam my ears to, and I can hear you yet; and without any feet…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with…

— Rabindranath Tagore

“When I have not rage or sorrow, and you depart from me, then I am most afraid. When the belly is full, and the…

— Leonard Cohen

“Roar with delight while you still can, O illiterate demon, because when I will kill you, the gods themselves will roar with delight”

— Hindu Goddess Durga

All trembling, I reached the Falls of Niagara, and oh, what a scene! My blood shudders still, although I am not a coward, at…

— John James Audubon

“A sensation of helplessness, as if it were utterly impossible to go on living. Painful waves beat relentlessly on my heart, as after a…

— Osamu Dazai

You May Shoot Me With Your Words, You May Cut Me With Your Eyes, You May Kill Me With Your Hatefulness, But Still, Like…

— Babloo

Begin now, as you read these words, as you sit in your chair, to offer your whole selves, utterly and in joyful abandon, in…

— Thomas Raymond Kelly

“O Life: […] I fear you when you are near, I love you when you are far; your feeling allures me, your seeking secures…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“your voice in this being unable to move away from my gaze things dispossess me make of me a ship on a river of…

— Alejandra Pizarnik