Delightful Quotes - Page 12

• ..there is nothing worse than the feeling that no one cares whether we exist or not, that no one is interested in what we have to say about life, and that the world can continue turning without our awkward presence. I began to imagine how many millions of people were, at that moment, feeling utterly useless and wretched—however rich, charming, and delightful they might be—because they were alone that night, as they were yesterday, and as they might well be tomorrow.

  Paulo Coelho

  Night, Yesterday, People

  6 Copy quote

• All that in this delightful garden grows should happy be and have immortal bliss.

  Edmund Spenser

  Happiness, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Edmund Spenser, John Hughes (1750). “The Works: In Sex Volumes. With A Glossary Explaining the Old and Obscure Words. To which is Prefix'd the Life of the Author, and an Essay on Allegorical Poetry”, p.270

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.

  William Cowper

  Prayer, Believe, Proof

  William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: The life of William Cowper. Letters, 1765-1783”

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Few things are more delightful than grandchildren fighting over your lap.

  Doug Larson

  Grandma, Grandmother, Fighting

  27 Copy quote

• I feel the delightful, velvety texture of a flower, and discover its remarkable convolutions; and something of the miracle of Nature is revealed to me.

  Helen Keller

  Flower, Miracle, Texture

  "Three Days to See". Atlantic Monthly, January, 1933.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay.

  J. D. Sedding

  Dream, Time, Believe

  5 Copy quote

• I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.

  Emile Zola

  Death, Passion, Garden

  17 Copy quote

• It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.

  Jane Austen

  Writing, Practice, Style

  Jane Austen (2012). “Northanger Abbey”, p.12, Courier Corporation

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God's truth to be his heritage.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Christian, Fall

  4 Copy quote

• Theories have been outgrown. The means is disappearing, the reality of the sensation alone remains. It is that in its essence which I wish to put down. It should be a delightful adventure.

  Arthur Dove

  Adventure, Mean, Reality

  9 Copy quote

• My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. How can it be that writing down a few simple and elegant formulae, like short poems governed by strict rules such as those of the sonnet or the waka, can predict universal regularities of Nature?

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Nature, Hard Work, Writing

  7 Copy quote

• What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Baseball, Mother, Games

  7 Copy quote

• Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. But the path to paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep. There are times of complete frustration, there are daily small deaths.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Sleep, Frustration

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

  41 Copy quote

  Show source

• In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross - with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved - injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness.

  Elias Lyman Magoon

  Forgiveness, Men, Amnesty

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 252), 1895.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison.

  Georges Bataille

  Happiness, Poison, Literature

  Georges Bataille (1972). “My mother”, Jonathan Cape

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• History is full of delightful reversals, where the opposite of what one predicts comes true.

  Edmund Snow Carpenter

  Opposites, History, Reversal

  4 Copy quote

• If nothing is delightful without love and jokes, then live in love and jokes.

  Horace

  Life, Jokes, Without Love

  4 Copy quote

• As for me, Poetry takes the place of love, because it is enamored of itself, and because this self-lust has a delightful dying fall in my soul.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Fall, Love Is, Self

  Letter to Henri Cazalis, May 14, 1867.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am going to tell you what nature behaves like. If you will simply admit that maybe she does behave like this, you will find her a delightful, entrancing thing. Do not keep saying to yourself, if you can possibly avoid it, 'But how can it be like that?' ...Nobody knows how it can be like that.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Science, Doe, Physics

  "The Character of Physical Law". Book by Richard P. Feynman, 1965.

  56 Copy quote

  Show source

• Human life is so full of pain, that once past the youthful delusion that a sad countenance is interesting, and an incurable woe the most delightful thing possible, the mind instinctively turns where it can get rest, and cheer and sunshine. And the friend who can bring to it the largest portion of these is, of a natural necessity, the most useful, the most welcome, and the most dear.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Cheer, Pain, Real

  7 Copy quote

• There is no place more delightful than one's own fireside.
  Nullus est locus domestica sede jucundior.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Home

  4 Copy quote

• Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Happiness, Stress

  8 Copy quote

• Since the handling of arms is a beautiful spectacle, it is delightful to young men.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Beautiful, Art, War

  6 Copy quote

• What I really enjoy is not you; it's something that's greater than both you and me. It is something that I discovered, a kind of symphony, a kind of orchestra that plays one melody in your presence, but when you depart, the orchestra doesn't stop. When I meet someone else, it plays another melody, which is also very delightful. And when I'm alone, it continues to play.

  Anthony de Mello

  Inspirational, Play, Symphony

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.54, Image

  62 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given by God in a holy manner and with thanksgiving.

  Martin Luther

  Heart, Use, Spirit

  Martin Luther (1960). “Lectures on Genesis”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source