Color Quote by Mary Augusta Ward

Delight itself, however, is a weak term to express the feelings of a naturalist.

— Charles Darwin

A lonely impulse of delight

— Anonymous

Delight in itself is the approach of sanity. Delight is to open our eyes to the reality of the situation rather than siding with…

— Chogyam Trungpa

The fact of our deriving constant pleasure from whatever is a type or semblance of divine attributes, and from nothing but that which is…

— John Ruskin

an intoxication with forbidden knowledge in which the natural things become unimportant.

— Anne Rice

Often a retrospect delights the mind.

— Dante Alighieri

“In both instances [a car coming out of the Himalayas and tobogganning] the sensation was pleasurable--intensely so; it was a sudden and immense exaltation,…

— Mark Twain

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The delight that consumes the desire, The desire that outruns the delight.

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Having proven that solitary pleasures are as delicious as any others and much more likely to delight, it becomes perfectly clear that this enjoyment,…

— Anonymous

Whenever and wherever one encounters the arising and passing away of the mental-physical structure, one enjoys bliss and delight, which lead on to the…

— Gautama Buddha

In our pursuit of the things of this world, we usually prevent enjoyment, by expectation; we anticipate our own happiness, and eat out the…

— John Tillotson