Quotes About Delight

There was an expression on her face at certain times, an expression of unconscious joy which came from a part of her he had always coveted, a separate being he never saw when he was with her. He had seen that being in the arena or the hunt, skimming the green pastures towards the high fences, all there between the posts and over the water, winging on danger and delight, a bird soaring with a singing face. He wanted to hold that bird.

Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life-in her two lives-she felt absolutely unstoppable.

There are moments in life that the white-chocolate Magnum ice cream was invented for, and this is one of them.

Sure, I eat because I have to. But I also eat because I want to. It is one of life's few pleasures.

We should enjoy food and have fun. It is one of the simplest and nicest pleasures in life.

Sometimes the small pleasures in life are the sweetest.

Life's better when it's fun. Boy, that's deep, isn't it?

I am interested in what happens to people who find the whole of life so rewarding that they are able to move through it with the same kind of delight in which a child moves through a game.

Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

It's brief and bright, dear children; bright and brief. Delight's the lightning; the long thunder's grief. — John Frederick Nims, "Days of Our Years," Selected Poems (The University of Chicago Press, 1982)

The brave Love mercy, and delight to save.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.

Chapter VII Of Simple Ideas of both Sensation and Reflection 1. Ideas of pleasure and pain. There be other simple ideas which convey themselves into the mind by all the ways of sensation and reflection, viz. pleasure or delight, and its opposite, pain, or uneasiness; power; existence; unity.

Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.

The croissant was crisp and soft and flaky at the same time. Just biting it made you feel cared for.

Good food is also there to satisfy the senses.

He delighted in Sebastien's jealousy and anger, and always had.

Lucifer was laughing, defending himself delightedly from the slender light wrapped figure who pressed him only tentatively.

He had never been able to name things himself-he was, after all, in chief a sort of archivist-but as with many archivists, a good irony and a pun delighted him.

To eat figs off the tree in the very early morning, when they have been barely touched by the sun, is one of the exquisite pleasures of the Mediterranean.

Garnet was very happy. She was so happy, for no especial reason, that she felt as if she must move carefully so she wouldn't jar or shake the feeling of happiness.

Hannah's magic cure for every ill," he teased. "Blueberry cake and a kitten.

Believe instead in love. It is my faith that love shaped the universe as you shape your clocks, delighting in creation. I believe that just as you wish to give me your clock in love, refusing payment, so God loves me and gave Himself for me. That is my faith. I cannot presume to force it upon you, I can only ask you in friendship to consider it.

I get way too much happiness from good food.