Joy Quotes

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. (Aeschylus, 525-456 bc)

Joy rises in me like a summer's morn. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834)

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. 'Tis good to give a stranger a meal, or a night's lodging. 'Tis better to be hospitable to his good meaning and thought, and give courage to a companion. We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882)

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. (Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931)

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? (Kahlil Gibran, 1883-1931)

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world. (Helen Keller, 1880-1968)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever. (John Keats, 1795-1821)

My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it. (Charles Lamb, 1775-1834)

The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference. (Audre Lorde, 1934-1992)

In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious. (Marcel Proust, 1871-1922)

A joy that's shared is a joy made double. (John Ray, 1627-1705)

You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain. (Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862)

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