Joy

Famous quotes containing the word joy:

“In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual, delays, but which can at any moment become what it would have become long earlier if one had not obtained what one wanted, atrocious.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“Give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning.”
—Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 61:3.

“Of all the joys that lighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a newborn child?”
—Dorothy L. Nolte (20th century)