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Quotes About Joy

As in all sweetest music, a tinge of sadness was in every note. Nor do we know how much of the pleasures even of life we owe to the intermingled sorrows. Joy cannot unfold the deepest truths, although deepest truth must be deepest joy.
~ George MacDonald
I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.
~ George Plimpton
I have never been convinced there's anything inherently wrong in having fun.
~ George Plimpton
A friend doubles joys and cuts griefs in half'?
~ George R. Stewart
One of them went to get the thing for which he had cried out. When they brought it, Ish was delighted, and now they laughed at him as if he really were a child, good-naturedly. Ish did not mind. He had what he wanted. It was a scarlet flower—a geranium, which had adapted itself to the new life and lived through these years. It was not the flower but the color, Ish realized, that had given him that sudden pang and made him cry out.
~ George R. Stewart
I am alive, and drunk on sunlight.
~ George R.R. Martin
I want to make my kingdom beautiful, to fill it with fat men and pretty maids and laughing children. I want my people to smile when they see me ride by, the way Viserys said they smiled for my father. (Daenerys)
~ George R.R. Martin
A dead enemy is a joy forever
~ George R.R. Martin
There was an agelessness about him, a stillness; on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.
~ George R.R. Martin
on Roose Bolton's face, rage and joy looked much the same.
~ George R.R. Martin
I remember a man throwing me in the air when I was very little. He stands as tall as the sky, and he throws me up so high it feels as though I'm flying. We're both laughing, laughing so much that I could hardly catch a breath, and finally I laugh so hard I wet myself, but that only makes him laugh the louder. I was never afraid when he was throwing me. I knew that he would always be there to catch me.
~ George R.R. Martin
The day is won [...] And yet you do not smile, boy. The living should smile, for the dead cannot.
~ George R.R. Martin
A small victory, he thought, but sweet.
~ George R.R. Martin
The living should smile, for the dead cannot
~ George R.R. Martin
It's sad. He likes it where the wine is, and the smiles.
~ George R.R. Martin
I read bells. Not the sound of bells, no, no, but the feel of bells, the emotion of bells, the bright clanging joy, the hooting-shouting-ringing loudness, the song of the Joined, the togetherness and the sharing of it all.
~ George R.R. Martin
You will have little joy of your command, but I think you have the strength in you to do the things that must be done.
~ George R.R. Martin
The pie is meant to be the marriage, and a true marriage has in it many sorts of things—joy and grief, pain and pleasure, love and lust and loyalty. So it is fitting that there be birds of many sorts. No man ever truly knows what a new wife will bring him.
~ George R.R. Martin
Then I am not a dwarf. My father will rejoice to hear it.
~ George R.R. Martin
Az él?knek mosolyogni kell, hiszen a halottak nem tudnak.
~ George R.R. Martin
There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
~ George Sand
There is only one happiness in life to love and to be loved.
~ George Sand
Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.
~ George Sand
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
~ George Sand