Joyous

Famous quotes containing the word joyous:

“It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs ... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

“The little suckings and smackings of the perversions are the sounds of joyous infancy.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“A joyous shot at how things ought to be,
Long fallen wide.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)