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Quotes About Joy

It is one of the great joys of home ownership to fire a pistol in one's own bedroom
~ Alfred Jarry
I do but sing because I must,And pipe but as the linnets sing.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I will drinkLife to the lees.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky!
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear;Tomorrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New Year;Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest day;For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be Queen o' the May.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
What we learn with pleasure we never forget.
~ Alfred Mercier
Inventive genius requires pleasurable mental activity as a condition for its vigorous exercise
~ Alfred North Whitehead
From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.
~ Alfred Whitehead
Laughter is the orgasm of the face".
~ Alfredo Arias
A cada uno su pena, pero a todos la alegria
~ Alfredo Bryce Echenique
It was clear, however, that the woman had in herself some secret source of joy, that she was now an aggressive, positive force, sure of herself, and apparently afraid of nothing in heaven or hell.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Estaba en la plenitud de la exaltación. El mundo yacía bajo sus pies, hecho de música y flores; y el volaba muy por encima, a través de un crepúsculo de pura delicia.
~ Algernon Blackwood
Lo, this is she that was the world's delight.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
We are not sure of sorrow; and joy was never sure; Today will die tomorrow; Time stoops to no man's lure.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
We are not sure of sorrow, And joy was never sure; To-day will die to-morrow; Time stoops to no man's lure; And love, grown faint and fretful, With lips but half regretful Sighs, and with eyes forgetful Weeps that no loves endure. From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may be That no life lives for ever; That dead men rise up never; That even the weariest river Winds somewhere safe to sea.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
You came, and the sun came after, And the green grew golden above; And the flag-flowers lightened with laughter, And the meadowsweet shook with love
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
A great many men don't understand a woman full of joy, even more don't understand paintings full of joy by a woman.
~ Ali Smith
I went outside mournful, and I hit pure air. The air was full of birdsong. I went outside expecting rain but it was sunny, it was so suddenly, so openly sunny, with so sharp a spring light coming off the river, that I went down the side of the riverbank and sat in among the daffodils.
~ Ali Smith
And they all died happily ever after. A very happy ending," the littlest one said.
~ Ali Smith
But pure joy! He'd forgotten what it feels like, to feel. To feel even just the thought of one's own bared self near someone else's beauty.
~ Ali Smith
You can't put a pin through a summer.
~ Ali Smith
Creativity is cultural joy because it is derivative of it, but because it aims to heal culture. Art is saturated with the unconscious acts like a compensatory dream in the individual: it tries to rebalance and address deep-rooted problems.
~ Ali Smith
But now it was as if such simplicity had, without him even noticing it happening, grown very small and far away and him on the deck of an old ocean liner heading towards rough sea and waving like a madman back at a shore which, like a time when there'd been a steady kind of joy in something like the simplicity of a lemon, had disappeared, vanished completely, was no longer visible to the eye. Is no longer. Loser.
~ Ali Smith
Love is eternal. That is its terror and its final beauty. Love never ends. The joy may go out of it, and, in time, even the pain may end. But it lingers like a living thing and follows you every moment of your life.
~ Alice Borchardt