Joylessness Quotes

#1. Men could not have too much. Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor and as Zhirem's cup was sure, so was his joylessness ... to die is a fear, but to live is a fear, also.

Tanith Lee

#2. My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.

Billy Crystal

#3. Live a life of love, especially the love of God, and observe the joy of it. Live a life of lovelessness and observe the joylessness of it.

Peter Kreeft

#4. The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness.

Yann Martel

#6. The true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

E. M. Forster

#7. Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

John Ortberg

#8. I am sometimes accused by my peers of printing my pictures too dark. All I can say is that it goes with the mood of melancholy that is induced by witnessing at close quarters such intractable situations of conflict and joylessness.

Don McCullin

#9. Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#10. I think that if you write what you love to read, that will be what your audience wants to read, too.

Sarah Mlynowski

#11. And this homage to women's attractions has distorted their understanding to
such an extent that almost all the civilized women of the present century are anxious only to inspire love, when they ought to have the nobler aim of getting respect for their abilities and virtues.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#12. Fun. I'm not the kind of guy kids picked on in school, but I've seen it happen. I've never really given much thought to being cool. I don't really think about it one way or the other.

Logan Lerman

#13. Letting go takes a lot of courage sometimes. But once you let go, happiness comes very quickly. You won't have to go around search for it.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#14. If I'd known what marriage was going to be like, well, heck, I probably would have tied all those hope-chest linens into a rope and hung myself from a tree!

Barbara Kingsolver

#15. I was interested about how relationships change as you get older. You are great friends in your 20s. In your 30s, you get married. Your 40s are all about your kids. In your 50s, you get divorced, and your friendships become primary again.

Hanya Yanagihara