If you clean it up, get analytical, all the subtle joy and emotion you felt in the first place goes flying out the window.
Andrew Wyeth

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do.
David Herbert Lawrence

Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary.
Kamal Ahmed

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
Eudora Welty

Certainly, I think being depressed is absolutely part of the human condition, it has to be, if there's joy there's its opposite, and it's something you ride if you possibly can.
Bob Geldof

The girls are a complete joy and I love their passion. They argue with me like mad and I love that too.
Bob Geldof

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Hosea Ballou

The joy that isn't shared dies young.
Anne Sexton

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.
Franz Schubert

Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy.
Franz Schubert

The joy we get as actors is out of transforming ourselves into something that's not necessarily anything true to ourselves. And it's a power - not being yourself, and being in the role; it's just like another prop.
Reese Witherspoon

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.
Swami Sivananda

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.
Richard Wagner

I found more joy in sorrow than you could find in joy.
Sara Teasdale

Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
Sara Teasdale

Joy always came after pain.
Guillaume Apollinaire

Our goal should be to achieve joy.
Ana Castillo

It's a very nice thing to be able to give joy to people.
Jon Crosby

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey

Life is a tragedy full of joy.
Bernard Malamud