Delight Quotes
Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him
What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?
We regard prayer no longer as a duty which must be performed, but rather as a privilege which is to be enjoyed, a rare delight that is always revealing some new beauty.
Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.
Deny the world, defy the devil, despise the flesh, and delight yourself only in the Lord.
Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.
Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.
The secret of a happy life is to delight in duty. When duty becomes delight, then burdens become blessings
Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.
As a result of a kiss, there arises in the mind a wonderful feeling of delight that awakens and binds together the love of them that kiss.
We do not need the praises of a Homer, or of anyone else whose words may delight us for the moment, but the estimation of facts will fall short of what is really true.
Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it — and the delight is the sense of the sacred.
When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want, but to fill them with great delight.
There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To the perfect delight of Messina.
In soft deluding lies let fools delight. A shadow marks our days, which end in Night.
He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.
The subliminal mind receives and remembers all those touches that delight the soul. Our soul takes joy in this right touching by the Essence of all experience.
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness.
Since the printing press came into being, poetry has ceased to be the delight of the whole community of man; it has become the amusement and delight of the few.
The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.'
Paris is the playwright's delight. New York is the home of directors. London, however, is the actor's city, the only one in the world. In London, actors are given their head.
The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever.
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.
It is for the wise people who delight in humanity, praise justice, despise their flatterers, and respect the truth.
Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.
There is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.