Delight Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A man who has suffered much and wandered much has pleasure out of his sorrows.”

— Homer

The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him.

— C. S. Lewis

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough…

— Joseph Addison

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

— Benjamin Disraeli

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

— Algernon Charles Swinburne

When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious.

— Georges St-Pierre

Man seems merely dust postponed: the sublime as an encounter - pleasurable, intoxicating, even - with human weakness in the face of strength, age…

— Alain de Botton

“The most tragic strain in human existence lies in the fact that the pleasure which we find in the things of this life, however…

— Randy Alcorn

The deeper sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

— Kahlil Gibran

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

— Maxine Kumin

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

— Khalil Gibran

For where there is true love, a man is neither out of measure lifted up by prosperity, nor cast down by mishap; whether you…

— Johannes Tauler