Quotes on Joy Of Life

Know the joy of life by piling good deed on good deed until no rift or cranny appears between them.

The joy of life is variety; the tenderest love requires to be rekindled by intervals of absence.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life.

[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.