Delight Quotes - Page 18

Delight comes only when our soul dances and plays with another.

We’re beings toward death, we’re … two-legged, linguistically-conscious creatures born between urine and feces whose body will one day be the culinary delight of terrestrial worms.

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.

My lady's sparrow is dead, the sparrow which was my lady's delight

God delights in answering our impossible prayers.

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

A sip is the most than mortals are permitted from any goblet of delight.

Let us savour the swift delights of the most beautiful of our days!

Watching everyone root through their psyche, it just delights me. Especially R. Crumb's stuff.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'

I'm delighted that the future is unsure. That's the way it should be.

Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another's case.

How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five?

Energy is the only life, and is from the body; and reason is the bound or outward circumference of energy. Energy is eternal delight.

When spring is here the sketcher begins to look over his equipment and relishes in anticipation the soothing hours he will spend in the open, warmed by the sun, fanned by the breeze, charmed by the manifold delights of nature.

My parents were absolutely delighted that I knew what I wanted to do.

What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them.

Women's underwear section it's like Narnia's wardrobe for my erotic delights.

Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real

Religiously, we longed for the lively life in Christ, but we did not fully see that we were equally longing for the lively life of the mind - the delights of conversation at once serious and gay, which is, whatever its subject, Christ or poetry or history, the ultimately civilized thing.

Every change of place becomes a delight.

We are more pained by ignorance than delighted by instruction.

Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

One writes to teach, to move or to delight.