Quotes About Joy

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

During the Great Depression, when people laughed their worries disappeared. Audiences loved these funny men. I decided to become one.

This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in two, and he who laughs with us makes the joy double.

It is not every man who can be exquisitely miserable, any more than exquisitely happy.

Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.

Such is the life of a man. Moments of joy, obliterated by unforgettable sadness. There's no need to tell the children that.

Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home.

Man's true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.

He who does not believe has no soul. He is empty. He has no ideals. He has nothing to live for. He has no sunshine, no light. No joy in life. He is a poor, poor man.

Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made.

The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth.

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

Act is the blossom of thought; and joy and suffering are its fruits; thus does a man garner in the sweet and biter fruitage of his own husbandry

He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.

Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!

Man's most serious activity is play.

Since the hour when Christ despoiled Hades, men have danced in triumph over death.

Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders.

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.