Quotes About Joy

Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy.

I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fucking life.

If you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane.

It's a fun playtime. Please, don't kill it with big words.

Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.

There's a terrible dark joy when the only person who knows all your secrets is finally dead.

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good fricken life.

actual happiness only happens by accident

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It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness.

Our purest joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy. The joy you feel when a limousine turns the wrong way down a one-way street.

There's a ter­ri­ble dark joy when the on­ly per­son who knows all your se­crets is fi­nal­ly dead. Your par­ents. Your doc­tor. Your ther­apist. Your case­work­er. The sun's out­side the bath­room win­dow try­ing to show us we're all be­ing stupid. All you have to do is look around.

These dudes, clutching their little gifts, for them today is their kind-of-honeymoon.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

Give me passion. Flash. Give me joy. Flash. Give me youth and energy and innocence and beauty. Flash.

God should be able to wink that good. Like somebody taking your picture. Give me joy. Give me fun. Give me love. Flash.

If humor comes from anything, it arises from an immense feeling of relief.

Stendhal syndrome, Angel says, is a medical term. It's when a painting, or any form of art, is so beautiful it overwhelms the viewer. It's a form of shock. When Stendhal toured the Church of Santa Croce in Florence in 1817, he reported almost fainting from joy. People feel rapid heart palpitations. They get dizzy. Looking at great art makes you forget your own name, forget even where you're at. It can bring on depression and physical exhaustion. Amnesia. Panic. Heart attack. Collapse.

he wanted to be happy the way a dog is happy.

Die reinste Freude ist die Schadenfreude.

The best gift you can give somebody is a surprise because they never forget.

How can life be worth living, to use the words of Ennius, which lacks that repose which is to be found in the mutual good-will of a friend? What can be more delightful than to have some one to whom you can say everything with the same absolute confidence as to yourself? Is not prosperity robbed of half its value if you have no one to share your joy? On the other hand, misfortunes would be hard to bear if there were not some one to feel them even more acutely than yourself.