joy Quotes

“Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.”

― William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

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“A Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man's heart through half the year.”

― Walter Scott, Marmion

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“I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter—the Eternity they have entered—where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fulness.”

― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

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“philosophy . . . people are much to blame to represent it to children for a thing of so difficult access, and with such a frowning, grim, and formidable aspect. Who is it that has disguised it thus, with this false, pale, and ghostly countenance?...”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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“For what is love itself, for the one we love best? —an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.”

― George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

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“How could he rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

― J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit

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“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Letters of Two Brides

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“It was a joy. Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

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“Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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