Joy

Famous quotes containing the word joy:

“The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“For the time of towns is tolled from the world by funereal chimes, but in nature the universal hours are counted by succeeding tribes of animals and plants, and by growth of joy on joy.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Pity the planet, all joy gone
from this sweet volcanic cone;”
—Robert Lowell (1917–1977)