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“I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen me? And from within a thrilling voice replies, Thou art in Rome! A thousand busy thoughts Rush on my mind, a thousand images; And I spring up as girt to run a race!”
Samuel Rogers (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O! immodest mortal! Your destiny is the joy of watching the evershifting battle!”
Ludwig Boltzmann (attributed) first seen 2006 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: S. Rajasekar, N.Athavan, "Ludwig Edward Boltzmann" (7 September 2006), arXiv:physics/0609047v1 [physics.hist-ph]
“God's very service is wages; His ways are strewed with roses, and paved with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory, and with peace that passeth understanding.”
Thomas Brooks (Puritan) (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Man, being essentially active, must find in activity his joy, as well as his beauty and glory; and labor, like every thing else that is good, is its own reward.”
Henry Benjamin Whipple (misattributed) first seen 1891 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reported as being by Henry Benjamin Whipple in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 3. Actually a misquotation from Edwin Percy Whipple, "Loafing and Laboring", The North…
“The cup of joy is heaviest when empty.”
Marguerite de Navarre (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On that small blue and white planet below is everything that means anything to you: all of history and music, poetry and art, death and birth, love, tears, joy and games... All on that little spot in the cosmos. National boundaries and human artifacts no longer seem real. Only the biosphere, whole and home of life.”
Rusty Schweickart (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.”
James, brother of Jesus (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O most illustrious of the days of time! Day full of joy and benison to earth When Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem! With dazzling pomp descending angels sung Good will and peace to men, to God due praise, Who on the errand of salvation sent Thee, Son Beloved! of plural Unity Essential part, made flesh that mad’st all worlds.”
Abraham Coles (attributed) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Lafferty has the power which sets fire behind your eyeballs. There is warmth, illumination, and a certain joy attendant upon the experience. He's good.”
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Roger Zelazny, in a cover blurb for Nine Hundred Grandmothers (1970)
“My music cannot possibly have given you one hundredth part of the joy your music has given me.”
Edward German (1862–1936) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Edward Elgar, in a letter to German (1924)
“Seriously! Acting in films is not my cup of tea. The joy I find in being a pucca musician is unparalleled.”
Shreya Ghoshal (born 1984) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Make the coming hour o'erflow with joy, And pleasure drown the brim.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“How sweet a thing it is to wear a crown, Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign of bliss and joy!”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I drink to the general joy o' the whole table.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“My grief lies onward and my joy behind.”
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) said by 1616 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Such joy ambition finds.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Hope elevates, and joy Brightens his crest.”
John Milton (1608–1674) said by 1674 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“The soul's calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And taste The melancholy joy of evils past: For he who much has suffer'd, much will know.”
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) said by 1744 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“They hear a voice in every wind, And snatch a fearful joy.”
Thomas Gray (1716–1771) said by 1771 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.”
Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774) said by 1774 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, The sleepless soul that perished in his pride; Of him who walked in glory and in joy, Following his plough, along the mountain-side. By our own spirits we are deified; We Poets in our youth begin in gladness, But thereof come in the end despondency and madness.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) said by 1850 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell, To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy, for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with his native sea.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) said by 1850 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And the stern joy which warriors feel In foemen worthy of their steel.”
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) said by 1832 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh leave the light of Hope behind! What though my winged hours of bliss have been Like angel visits, few and far between.”
Thomas Campbell (1777–1844) said by 1844 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Did ye not hear it?--No! 't was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“And I have loved thee, Ocean! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward; from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers, . . . . . And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane,--as I do here.”
Lord Byron (1788–1824) said by 1824 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness.”
John Keats (1795–1821) said by 1821 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 't is little joy To know I 'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.”
Thomas Hood (1799–1845) said by 1845 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Sorrows remember'd sweeten present joy.”
Robert Pollok (1799–1827) said by 1827 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.”
James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) said by 1891 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“No greater grief than to remember days Of joy when misery is at hand.”
Dante (1265–1321) said by 1321 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“One inch of joy surmounts of grief a span, Because to laugh is proper to the man.”
Francis Rabelais (1495–1553) said by 1553 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“I caused the widow's heart to sing for joy.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“The morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“Beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, . . . the city of the great King.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“The heart knoweth his own bitterness; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.”
The Bible (active around 812) bartlett, Public domain source
“I fear you. As victors, you may become the bureaucracy: doling out to each his bit as in a poorhouse, assigning to each his task as in a prison. And you will exterminate the creator of new worlds,—the free human will, and stop up the purest well of human happiness—the power of the one to face thousands, to stand up to peoples and generations.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hofnung un Shrek, 1906. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 279.
“That happiness does still the longest thrive, Where joys and griefs have turns alternative.”
Robert Herrick (poet) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The world is one family, of which we are all members. Peace and unity prevail in a household when the individuals fulfil their duties and responsibilities with the awareness that each member is an integral part of the whole. Only when we work together as a global family, not merely belonging to a particular race, religion or nation, will peace and happiness once again prevail on this earth.”
Mata Amritanandamayi (born 1953) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If you hand a man a lemon and tell him that its sourness lies outside the lemon, he will think you are joking. Yet, with a perfectly straight face, that same man will tell you that his sour life is caused by external events. When will man learn that he is the cause of his own feelings for either happiness or anxiety?”
Vernon Howard (1918–1992) said by 1992 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing in the universe can hold down that rare individual who clearly realizes that he or she dosen't know what's in the way of his or her happiness, but who is willing to find out.”
Guy Finley (born 1949) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She put on happiness like a loose dress over pain I'll never know.”
Aaron Weiss wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“My darling girl, Unfortunately, this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. All the same, or precisely for this reason, it is happiness and comfort for us men to have a precious sweetheart - and I have the most precious, the dearest and best of all!”
Martin Bormann (1900–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" - Page 873 - by Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993.
“Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that everyone has a gift. I don’t want anything but general happiness. Why is that bad?”
Oscar Niemeyer (1907–2012) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Tom Dyckhoff "Why Oscar Niemeyer is king of curves" The Times (London, 12 December 2007)