Joy Quote by Jack Kerouac

“Be assured that joy will rise again, and hope will forever shine its light against despair's dark torment and bitter heartbreak.”

— R. O. Mercer

“I often heard this melodious hymn again in days of hardship, and it always affected me painfully. Not as the reproachful warning clang of…

— Sven Anders Hedin

“How could we be sorrow, if there is a song?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The feeling of joy came up in me again the way the lyric of a song might remind a man on the edge of…

— Norman Mailer

“Even when the strings are broken in our lives, the sweet music plays on in our hearts.”

— Bryant McGill

“What tickles the soul, makes all the world well again”

— Leandra J. Kalsy

“Music was a balm for any weary soul. It could either lift a person out of the doldrums or comfort him if there was…

— Lisa Lewis

“Music enlivens my soul and opens my heart to ever greater levels of bliss and joy.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“You are a song like no other song God's ever sung. Let that song fill your part of His world with joy-sounds.”

— Joanne Otto

“Let's get really fucked up and full of sentimental despair and then finally decide life, despite every heartbreak and anguished cry, is worth each…

— Jim Dodge

“The music was so mournful and emotional that it seemed like the only suitable thing to play.”

— Deborah Curtis

“With the love of music, there will be no misery in life.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita