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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Joy

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A flower blossoms for its own joy.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Oscar Wilde
Happiness, Flower, Joy
Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.54, Courier Corporation

I walk the world in wonder.

Oscar Wilde
Joy, World, Wonder

What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons.

Oscar Wilde
Beauty, Beautiful, Joy
Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.772, GENERAL PRESS

A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Oscar Wilde
Joy, Taste, Abstinence

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.

Oscar Wilde
Happiness, Expression, Joy
Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.701, GENERAL PRESS

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

Oscar Wilde
Passion, Zinc, Joy
Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde
Art, Passion, Joy

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

Oscar Wilde
Sympathy, Pain, Joy
Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.65, Oscar Wilde

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

Oscar Wilde
Joy, Pleasure, Cruelty
Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.105, Oxford University Press on Demand

Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask.

Oscar Wilde
Laughter, Pain, Joy
Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.105, Oxford University Press on Demand

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