Quotes
Quotes about Joy
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.
There's a hope for every woe, And a balm for every pain, But the first joys of our heart Come never back again!
And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart, distrusting, asks if this be joy.
They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.
But were there ever any Writhed not at passed joy?
Joy makes us giddy, dizzy. [Ger., Die Freude macht drehend, wirblicht.]
Full from the fount of Joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom springs. [Lat., Medio de fonte leporum Surgit amari aliquid, quod in ipsis floribus angat.]
Joys do not stay, but take wing and fly away. [Lat., Gaudia non remanent, sed fugitiva volant.]
Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.
How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone; But those which soonest take their flight Are the most exquisite and strong; Like angel's visits short and bright, Mortality's too weak to bear them long.
Joy, in Nature's wide dominion, Mightiest cause of all is found; And 'tis joy that moves the pinion When the wheel of time goes round.
At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.
For bonny sweet Robin is all my joy.
My plenteous joys, Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves In drops of sorrow.
Joy is the feeling of grinning on the inside.
A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work.
In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone 's letter.
Joy has this in common with pain, that it robs people of reason.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.
