Joy Quote by William Shakespeare

“Calm, gentle, passionless as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“He undressed, lay down, put out the light. Two names he whispered into his pillow, the few chaste northern syllables that meant for him…

— Thomas Mann

“Now that he was navigating, his celestial mood was shattered. Wild, animal thirst for life, mixed with homesick longing for the free airs and…

— C.S. Lewis

“The joy of life, the innocence of beauty, the purity of nature – all of it instantly destroyed by the cowardly pulling of trigger…

— James J. Caterino

“He burned to appease the fierce longings of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce

“He was angry; not as the irritable, from chafing of a trifle; nor was his anger like the fool's, pumped from the wells of…

— Lew Wallace

“He saw that men who worked hard, and earned their scanty bread with lives of labour, were cheerful and happy; and that to the…

— Charles Dickens

“The joy made him feel like a drunken man. To teach and exhort and explain to his people--and to have them understand. That was…

— Carson McCullers

“And, to tell finally my greatest service, I've kept him from a thousand vicious acts, for low and vile things could never serve to…

— Petrarch

“Terribly thwarted in the autumn and winter, deadened in summer, in the spring his egoism would awaken his once inadequately defined revolt against world…

— Danilo Kiš

“He could be boastful in a way pleasantly at odds with his native fatalism, and his youthful stubbornness had a way of ameliorating into…

— Dan Lopez

“He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess,…

— Jack London