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Quotes About Delight

But now day breaks! I waited and saw it come, And what I saw, the hallowed, my word shall convey, For she, she herself, who is older than the ages And higher than the gods of Orient and Occident, Nature has now awoken amid the clang of arms, And from high Aether down to the low abyss, According to fixed law, begotten, as in the past, on holy Chaos, Delight, the all-creative, Delights in self-renewal.
~ Friedrich Hölderlin
He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health...
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Digressions, objections, delight in mockery, carefree mistrust are signs of health; everything unconditional belongs in pathology.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: – that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly – that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Only cast your pure eyes into the well of my delight, friends! You will not dim its sparkle! It shall laugh back at you with its purity.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
She was vanilla ice cream with meringue and maple syrup on
~ Fritz Leiber
Decisions were a delight after the curse. I loved having the power to say yes or no, and refusing anything was a special pleasure.
~ Gail Carson Levine
I assure you, we do not enjoy having so much fun.
~ Gail Carson Levine
In winter I love a pasty.
~ John Torode
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
~ Robert Frost
Cristin Milioti! Who you might know from 'How I Met Your Mother' or 'The Wolf of Wall Street.' A pure delight.
~ Christopher McCulloch
There is nothing I enjoy more than to see others enjoy themselves.
~ Charles Comiskey
I confess I take perverse delight as a theologian in the controversies surrounding postmodernism.
~ Stanley Hauerwas
I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.
~ Dick Van Dyke
From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.
~ Thomas Campion
again. After the relief came unalloyed delight. The news would please everybody.
~ Rosie Thomas
Almost always, it's the unexpected that delights us, that takes us by the throat and gives us a good shaking, leaving us gaping in wonder.
~ Ruskin Bond
Dear Lady, I beg you To cook as you please, But don't overlook the Importance of cheese!
~ Ruth McCrea
The world is always the same. Always beautiful: why should we let our delight in it die? The answer to this problem lies in education. If we teach our children to love everything about them - the sky, the air, water, flowers, animals - then they will keep their youthful spirit forever, whatever may happen to them in the trivial world of affairs.
~ Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.
~ Ruth Reichl
Unceasingly contemplate the generation of all things through change, and accustom thyself to the thought that the Nature of the Universe delights above all in changing the things that exist and making new ones of the same pattern.
~ Marcus Aurelius
For is there anything so absurd as to delight in many inanimate things, like public office, fame, and stately buildings, or dress and personal adornment, and to take little or no delight in a sentient being endowed with virtue and capable of loving, and — if I may so term it — of loving back?
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is to this effect: If a man should ascend alone into heaven and behold clearly the structure of the universe and the beauty of the stars, there would be no pleasure for him in the awe-inspiring sight, which would have filled him with delight if he had had someone to whom he could describe what he had seen. Thus nature, loving nothing solitary, always strives for some sort of support, and man's best support is a very dear friend.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero