Quotes About Delight

must perform my engagement,4 and let the monster depart with his mate, before I allowed myself to enjoy the delight of an union from which I expected peace.

I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight. Do you understand this feeling? This breeze, which has traveled from the regions towards which I am advancing, gives me a foretaste of those icy climes. Inspirited by this wind of promise, my daydreams become more fervent and vivid.

I read and studied the wild fancies of these writers with delight; they appeared to me treasures known to few besides myself.

God is voluptuous and delicious. — Meister Eckhart

To wait on God is to live a life of desire towards him, delight in him, dependence on him, and devotedness to him.

The more I looked, the more Christmasy it got.

Janelle did a tiny squee. It was an actual squee, a real one.

with the gay exuberance that made him irresistible at times

smell the sherry

But then, as seemed always to be the case when she found herself hit by a wave of happiness, or joy, or delight, there was an immediate undertow of sadness.

Then she dives out the door - or window, it doesn't matter - to see what wonders the new day will bring, and since Lotus Cloud views the world with the delighted eyes of a child everything is equally marvelous.

On the contrary, it's a way to make sure that you can continue to experience pleasure. What's the point of great meals, great wines, and great blouses if they don't make you feel great?

it is not dancing toy animals that are an endless source of delight for infants, but rather having control.

I was daily his delight,                  Rejoicing before him always,            Rejoicing in his inhabited world                  And delighting in the human race.

delight exceeds the possibilities envisioned by desire

Considerando que, con todo el odio expulsado fuera [la mente] su inocencia radical recupera y descubre por fin que por sí misma es capaz de deleitarse, de apaciguarse, de amedrentarse, y que su propia y dulce voluntad es la voluntad del cielo.

Considerando que, con todo el odio expulsado fuera [la mente] su inocencia radical recupera y descubre por fin que por sí misma es capaz de deleitarse, de apaciguarse, de amedrentarse, y que su propia y dulce voluntad es la voluntad del cielo. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

Cheesecake packs a sensual wallop unlike anything in the natural world because it is a brew of megadoses of agreeable stimuli which we concocted for the express purpose of pressing our pleasure buttons

John Dryden wrote that a work of fiction is "a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.

Meat tastes good, and eating it makes people happy.

I love dark chocolate - I could eat it 'til I puke.

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!

I love food, I love eating.

I love the smell of fried chicken.