Joyless Life Quotes

#1. Being born with a sickly resemblance to Henry Fonda was the first of a long series of practical jokes of which destiny was to make Major Major the unhappy victim throughout his joyless life. Being born Major Major Major was the second

Joseph Heller

#2. When I knelt to kiss her hand, she sighed heavily. 'Ask me nothing,' she said. 'Life itself is too joyless to be more embittered by explanations. Let all rest between us as now. I will love coldly, you warmly, with no nearer approaching.'
("The Basilisk")

R. Murray Gilchrist

#3. There may be times in a girl's life when it's better to be boyless, but there's no need to be joyless. Or toyless.

Cindy Chupack

#4. Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#5. Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome

Hartley Coleridge

#6. Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Leo Buscaglia

#7. I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar.

Red Buttons

#8. I wanted to write it on paper and fold it up in a box to remind myself, the next time I couldn't see anything but mountains ahead, that where there's a mountain, there's always a river flowing nearby. Ultimately the river is the more powerful of the two.

Lisa Wingate

#9. I want to write books that can truly become a legacy and bring benefits to people.

Andrea Hirata

#10. They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty. - Fitz

Fitz-Greene Halleck

#11. It was wrong to be so joyless, so desponding; I should have made God my friend, and to do His will the pleasure and the business of my life; but faith was weak, and passion was too strong.

Anne Bronte

#12. I've got a Range Rover. It's brilliant actually but it's manual.

Mick Ralphs

#13. Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism.

Pope John Paul II

#14. The entirety of his life to this point had merely been to prepare him for what he was to do next: bring hope to the hopeless and joy to the joyless. He would serve mankind by reminding them every year that a King had been born who had died for thier sins.

Glenn Beck

#15. The Christian life that is joyless is a discredit to God and a disgrace to itself.

Maltbie Davenport Babcock

#16. The business is all about gush and hype. You never have a bad meeting in L.A.

Emily Blunt

#17. Black Humor (Umor): a sensation --of the theatrical (and joyless) pointlessness of everything.

Jacques Vache

#18. My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Robert Fripp