Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Hugo

Joy is the reflex of terror.

Robert Blair

Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance

Renee Fleming

I cannot imagine a more satisfying calling than my own: beauty, humanity, and history every day, combined with the cathartic joy of singing.

Rene Descartes

Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.

Thomas Hood

While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.

Thomas E. Mann

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.

Rumi

The unseen presence keeps saying to us, ‘You are Joy!’

Rumi

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.

Rumi

All we really want is love's confusing joy.

Rumi

You transform all who are touched by you. Mundane concerns, troubles, and sorrows dissolve in your presence, bringing JOY.

Rumi

Let us put away our blinders and answer the call to Joy.

Rumi

This dance is the joy of existence.

Rumi

I will find new meaning in every joy and sorrow.

Rumi

If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

Susie Orbach

I thought of the analyst Winnicott's observation: 'It is a joy to be hidden but disaster not to be found'.

Suzanne Collins

Well, I knew that goat would be a little gold mine," I say. Yes, of course I was referring to that, not the lasting joy you gave your sister you love so much you took her place in the reaping," says Peeta drily.

Robert Browning

Sing, riding 's a joy! For me I ride.

Robert Browning

Desire joy and thank God for it. Renounce it, if need be, for other's sake. That's joy beyond joy.

Richard Ashcroft

I don't know if I have a problem expressing joy, but the difficulty is in making an album, a piece of music that really does reflect life rather than the one dimension. I have a problem in trying to make a complete trip record.

T. S. Eliot

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

Sylvester Stallone

No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.

Ronnie Barker

To me singing is a joy. Choral singing is a delight. Welsh Choral singing is more than a delight. The Treorchy Male Choir is the best in choral singing. How then can they be described except in superlatives? They are without equal.

Rick Riordan

Armed with my sword and wand, I was all set for a stroll through the swamp to look for a hungry monster. Oh, joy!

Rex Stout

To read of a detective's daring finesse or ingenious stratagem is a rare joy.

Rhonda Byrne

If you have "needing money" in your vibration, then you will keep attracting needing money. You have to find a way of being happy NOW, feeling good NOW, and being in joy NOW, without the money, because those great feelings are how you will feel with the money. Money doesn't bring happiness - but HAPPINESS BRINGS MONEY.

Rick Warren

We're not in control but we do have a greater hope and we do have a source of joy that isn't based on our circumstances.

Rebecca Solnit

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Whoever increases the sum of human joy, is a worshiper. He who adds to the sum of human misery, is a blasphemer.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Why should we postpone our joy to another world? Let us get all we can of the good between the cradle and the grave, all that we can of the truly dramatic. If, when death comes, that is the end, we have at least made the best of this life.

Stephen Fry

You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.

Sri Chinmoy

The world is for newness, not for oldness. New, new things we have to create. Then only the world will progress. If not, we will come to feel that there is nothing new under the sun. We have to create new things to keep our joy. If there is no newness, how can we have enthusiasm? And if there is no enthusiasm, do we make any progress?

William Cowper

A fretful temper will divide the closest knot that may be tied, by ceaseless sharp corrosion; a temper passionate and fierce may suddenly your joys disperse at one immense explosion.

Wayne Dyer

Know that you are part of a joyful Universe. Allow your romantic, ecstatic, blissful emotions to appear more frequently in your daily life. When you feel joy, experience it and express it! As the New Testament says, 'Joy is the fruit of the Spirit.'