Joy

Famous quotes containing the word joy:

“Loving, not the beloved, is the joy of love. The beloved, knowing this, most resolutely declines to be grateful.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

““Though logic-choppers rule the town,
And every man and maid and boy
Has marked a distant object down,
An aimless joy is a pure joy....””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“O Ye that put your trust and confidence
In worldly joy and frail prosperity,
That so live here as ye should never hence,
Remember death and look here upon me.”
—Sir Thomas More (1478–1535)