Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Camus

For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation.

Albert Camus

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

Clayton Christensen

Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.

D. A. Carson

If the text is God's Word, it is appropriate that we respond with reverence, a certain fear, a holy joy, a questing obedience.

Clara Schumann

If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.

Clara Schumann

There is nothing greater than the joy of composing something oneself and then listening to it.

David Mamet

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

Andre Dubus

The truth is life is full of joy and full of great sorrow, but you can't have one without the other.

Andre Gide

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

Andre Gide

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

Andre Gide

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

Ann Romney

Riding exhilarated me; it gave me a joy and a purpose.

Anais Nin

Physical experiences, lacking the joys of love, depend on twists and perversions of pleasure. Abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones.

Anais Nin

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives.

Anais Nin

For you and for me the highest moment, the keenest joy, is not when our minds dominate but when we lose our minds, and you and I both lose it in the same way, through love.

Anne Frank

I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.

Andrew Wyeth

If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.

Andrew Weil

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

Christopher Marlowe

Why this is hell, nor am I out of it: Thinkst thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells In being deprived of everlasting bliss! . . . When all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven.

Amy Adams

We’re only here briefly. And while I’m here I want to allow myself joy.

Anna Freud

Who promised you that only for joy were you brought to this earth?

Andrew Solomon

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

Ambrose Bierce

In theology, the state of a luckless mortal prenatally damned. The doctrine of reprobation was taught by Calvin, whose joy in it was somewhat marred by the sad sincerity of his conviction that although some are foredoomed to perdition, others are predestined to salvation.

Alice Walker

Resistance is the secret of joy!

Anne Lamott

Without using the word, everyone started forgiving each other again. Just like that, from the no of all nothingness: you have a big tense mess and out of it comes some joy. It must be magic.

Alexander McCall Smith

Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.

Alexander McCall Smith

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

Alexander Pope

O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.

Debbie Ford

It isn't what happens to us in life that creates our joy, but rather how we respond to what happens in our lives.

Dorothy Day

It is not easy always to be joyful, to keep in mind the duty of delight.

Dorothy Day

You will know your vocation by the joy that it brings you. You will know. You will know when it's right.

Don Piper

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

Don Henley

For every moment of joy Every hour of fear For every winding road that brought me here For every breath, for every day of living This is my Thanksgiving