4,580 Quotes About Joy

Don't let your fear of failing triumph over the joy of participating.

Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.

He was a joy to watch. Berger really had it going. He's going to be tough to stop.

The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.

The joy a person is usually seen to express at the conversion of another to his opinion is seldom more than the impulse of egotistical satisfaction at being considered worthy of didactic imitation.

Disobedience is my joy!

There is a curiously sharp sense of joy - or perhaps better expressed, a sense of mild ecstasy - that comes when you find the particular form required by your creation.

Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought.