Joy Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

“After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full…

— Alexandre Dumas

“...an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...”

— Homer

“We do not include the pleasures we enjoy in sleep in the inventory of the pleasures we have experienced in the course of our…

— Marcel Proust

“Before you came to live with us, our lives were as always, and we were happy. We worked, we ate, and then we slept.…

— Robert Murphy

“Though sleep was dearly needed, it was not welcomed, for even in sleep I was tormented.”

— Dave Moore

“In the pursuit of temporary happiness of the mind, we lose the eternal bliss of the Soul.”

— Shiva Negi

“But before going to bed, he fell on his knees and prayed a long time. In his fervent prayer he did not beseech God…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“But this pleasure was not unalloyed with pain, and it seemed as if the universal joy of the awakening world could now only impart…

— Guy de Maupassant

“What I felt that night, and what I did, I no more expected to feel and do, than to be lifted in a trance…

— Charlotte Brontë

“He longed for sleep, but it would not immerse him; that night the waters he sought for his repose were deep enough to wade…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Until then, there is joy, which by the way does not, as was once thought, require contrast with fear and pain to keep its…

— Dean Koontz

“...at that time of all times for yearning and longing, just before the sharp senses lose their outlines in sleep.”

— Elizabeth Gaskell