Absence Quote by Samuel Johnson

What is life without the joy of Love?

— Simonides of Ceos

Happiness is fleeting and life is brief, but we know that, nonetheless, life can be savored and that happiness, even of the ecstatic kind,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Joy is a noble thing, but happiness though fleeting can be found every day and in every small little way

— Anonymous

Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival.

— Willard Gaylin

The joy of life is variety.

— Samuel Johnson

There is no real and true joy of if that joy is not imbued with love. Love cannot exist without joy.

— Torkom Saraydarian

Joy is what we all seek. It is an energy more powerful than food. But without love we can not feel true joy.

— Akiane Kramarik

Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.

— David Steindl-Rast

Happiness is so nonsynonymous with joy or pleasure that it is not infrequently sought and felt in grief and deprivation.

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

It is Love that gives joy to happiness.

— Rumi

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Our natural and happiest life is when we lose ourselves in the exquisite absorption of home, the delicious retirement of dependent love.

— Dinah Maria Murlock Craik