Alain de Botton Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain.

  Alain de Botton

  Blessed, Sadness, Perspective

• We are sad at home and blame the weather and the ugliness of the buildings, but on the tropical island we learn that the state of the skies and the appearance of our dwellings can never on their own underwrite our joy nor condemn us to misery.

  Alain de Botton

  Home, Dwelling, Islands

  "On anticipation". www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2002.

• Why, then, if expensive things cannot bring us remarkable joy, are we so powerfully drawn to them?

  Alain de Botton

  Joy, Remarkable, Ifs

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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