Quotes About Joy

Maybe I didn't spend decades with you like Lucien did, but I bet I can make you laugh faster than he could.

She looks incandescent with joy, his attention the light in which her beauty shines especially bright.

I feel light. I am unwinding. I am unfurling like a banner.

I laugh again. Honestly, I don't know why I laughed so infrequently before. Everything is marvellous and ridiculous.

her steed kicks up off the cliff and in to the air. Mine follows. The wild exhilaration of flying hits me, and I grin with familiar delight. Beneath us are the whitecapped waves and ahead the shimmering lights of mortal towns, like a mysterious land strewn with stars.

Legends need not concern themselves with something as small as happiness.

Were you a happy child?' 'I was magic. How could I fail to be?

I like playing pretend with you.

tonight let us remember our triumph, our trickery, and our delight in one another.

Revelry is inherently slippery; part of its munificence is an easing of boundaries.

Their laughter floods the hallway, sounding like the cawing of crows.

We clasp hands and join the circle dance, leaping and laughing. The song feels as though it is calling my blood, moving it through my veins to the same ragged beat, with the same sweet chords.

Taryn is beautiful in her heavily embroidered dress, and Vivi radiant in soft violet grey with artfully sewn moths seeming to fly from her shoulder across her chest to gather in another group on one side of her waist. I realise how rarely I've seen her in truly splendid clothes. Her hair is up, and my earrings glitter in her lightly furred ears. Her cat eyes gleam in the half light, twin to Madoc's. For once, that makes me smile.

True, he doesn't make you cry. Question is, does he make you laugh?

Your dad used to say that our problems disappear when we laugh and I think he was right. They do, even if only for those few minutes while we are laughing.

Unquenchable laughter arose among the blessed gods.

Each man delights in the work that suits him best.

Grief shared is half grief; Joy shared is double joy.

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.

Children, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.

It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.