Joy Quote by Emil Cioran

“Those who remember are usually the unhappy ones. Only those who are able to forget, find the most joy in life.”

— L. Frank Baum

“Memory is a great deceiver, grief and longing cloud the past, and recollections, even vivid ones, fade.”

— Daniel Alarcón

“It is probably the only memory of real joy I have in the madness of my past.”

— Souad

“Memories of the past would return to us more often if only we sought them out, sought their intense sweetness. But we let them…

— Irene Nemirovsky

“May today's short moments of joy become treasured memories in the future.”

— Nanae Chrono

“Still, the last sad memory hovers round, and sometimes drifts across like floating mist, cutting off sunshine and chilling the remembrance of happier times.…

— Edward Whymper

“I was happy, I think, but I wonder now if my memory is playing tricks on me. If it is giving me the gift…

— Greer Hendricks

“It is the memory of past happiness that makes the present so intolerable.”

— Fay Weldon

“The gates of memory would roll open—old joys would stretch out their arms to them, old hopes and dreams would call to them, and…

— Upton Sinclair

“Joyful people are participants. They don’t miss the moments. They turn moments into memories.”

— Mike Bechtle

“Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys…

— Anonymous

“Joy never comes to those who seek it. In the self-forgetting hour when we are touched by another’s need and sacrifice for it, we…

— Fulton Sheen