Delight Quotes - Page 27

• If you admire yourself in the mirror, let it be in fear and not delight, because the only thing that beauty will bring to you is terror of losing it.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Mirrors, Losing, Admire

  Amelie Nothomb (2007). “Fear and Trembling: A Novel”, p.68, Macmillan

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• Hanns Heinz Ewers tells a short story of a boy who was so unnatural of disposition as to take a special delight in people sick with elephantiasis. Our "European intellectuality" finds itself in an identical condition today which, through Jewish pens, worships the Kokoschka, Chagalls and Pechsteins as the leaders of the Art of the future. Features of degeneracy are already apparent, as, for instance, with Schwalbach, who dares representing Jesus as flat footed and bow legged.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Jesus, Art, Boys

  "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, 1930.

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• When you look up at the sky, you have a feeling of unity which delights you and makes you giddy.

  Ferdinand Hodler

  Light, Sky, Darkness

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• Happiness can come in a single moment. And in a single moment it can go again. But a single moment does not create it. Happiness is created through countless choices made and then made again throughout a lifetime. You are its host as well as its guest. You give it form, shape, individuality, texture, tone. And what it allows you to give can change your world. Happiness can be stillness. But it isn't still. It wraps, enchants, heals, consoles, soothes, delights, calms, inspires and connects. It is on your face and in your body. It is in your life and being.

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Single Mom, Choices Made, Giving

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• I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.

  Brian Swimme

  Passion, Contentment, Strange

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• The beauty that men seek is half a dream-- Where'er we wander, yet it lies afar; It touches with its wand a setting star, It stirs the ripple of an ebbing stream. And though we run beyond the dawning gleam, Or kneel to worship at an altar bright, We may not know the soul of its delight, Or more than marvel at its palest beam.

  Kenneth Rand

  Beauty, Running, Dream

  Kenneth Rand (1914). “The Rainbow Chaser: And Other Poems ...”

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• You men do not understand the delights of a glance, of a pressure of the hand... but as for me, I swear to you that, when I listen to your voice, I feel such a deep, strange bliss that the most passionate kisses could not take its place.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Kissing, Men, Hands

  Mikhail Lermontov (2015). “A Hero of Our Time”, p.119, Xist Publishing

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• Those who delight in bad movies and enjoy producing their own unfilmed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may gain a measure of semi-masochistic enjoyment out of Van Helsing . There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good."

  James Berardinelli

  May, Able, Gains

  Review of "Van Helsing", reelviews.net, 2004.

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• Children delight in folk-tale and fairy lore, but the very little child loves best the story which mirrors the familiar. And it is for him, and for the mother who is striving in this age of profusion to guard the innate simplicity of her child's nature, that I have written my little stories.

  Maud Lindsay

  Mother, Children, Love Is

  Maud Lindsay (2010). “A Story Garden for Little Children”, Heart of Dixie Publishing

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• This is music that will disturb your imagination and
  delight your heart-a rare combination.

  Jeremy Begbie

  Heart, Imagination, Combination

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• You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.

  Richard Baxter

  Children, Sweat, Giving

  Richard Baxter, Benjamin Fawcett, Samuel Turell Armstrong (1811). “The Saint's Everlasting Rest, Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Heaven”, p.231

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• in the will of God" is not a matter of intellectual discernment, but a state of heart... It's motto is --" My Father can do what he likes with me, He may bless me to death, or give me a bitter cup; I delight to do His will.

  Oswald Chambers

  Father, Heart, Giving

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• Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good in vain which the reader throws away. He only is the master who keeps the mind in pleasing captivity; whose pages are perused with eagerness, and in hope of new pleasure are perused again; and whose conclusion is perceived with an eye of sorrow, such as the traveller casts upon departing day.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Eye

  Samuel Johnson (1854). “Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their Works”, p.375

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• Many causes may vitiate a writer's judgement of his own works. On that which has cost him much labour he sets a high value, because he is unwilling to think that he has been diligent in vain: what has been produced without toilsome efforts is considered with delight as a proof of vigorous faculties and fertile invention; and the last work, whatever it be, has necessarily most of the grace of novelty.

  Samuel Johnson

  Writing, Thinking, Effort

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.136

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• If nature did not take delight in blood, She would have made more easy ways to good.

  Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

  Blood, Atheism, Way

  Fulke Greville, “Mustapha”

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• Men ought to become more conscious of their bodies as objects of delight.

  Germaine Greer

  Men, Body, Conscious

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• When you dream, all the scenery, characters, events, perils, and outcomes are built from your own consciousness, the darks and oppressions as well as the delights. Same with the world awake, though it takes you longer to build it.

  Richard Bach

  Dream, Character, Events

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• It should stimulate the mind as well as the appetite. The well made cocktail is one of the most gracious of drinks. It pleases the senses. The shared delight of those who partake in common of this refreshing nectar breaks the ice of formal reserve. Taut nerves relax, taut muscles relax, tired eyes brighten, tongues loosen, friendships deepen, the whole world becomes a better place in which to live.

  David A. Embury

  Eye, Tired, Ice

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• Taking delight in random encounters that
  come our way is a wonderful reminder that
  God is in control.

  Mel Lawrenz

  Encounters, Way, Wonderful

  Mel Lawrenz (2008). “Jubilee: Everything is Different Starting Now”, p.53, Gospel Light Publications

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• Magic is the total delight (appreciation) of chance

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Appreciation, Magic, Chance

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• Mortal beauty stings while it delights.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Beauty, Mortals

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• Love delights in paradoxes. Saddest when it has most reason to be gay, sighs are the signs of its deepest joy, and silence is the expression of its yearning tenderness.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Love, Gay, Expression

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• Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a very fine poet, or else that it was written by someone who is not a poet at all. In the case of the former, the lines, the images, though they are inherent in each other, leap up and give one this shock of delight. In the case of the latter, they lie flat on the page, never having lived.

  Edith Sitwell

  Lying, Book, Giving

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• Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

  Plautus

  Riches, Used

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• The art of pleasing is more based on the art of seeming pleased than people think of, and she disarmed the prejudices of her enemies by the unaffected delight she appeared to take in themselves.

  Ouida

  Art, Thinking, People

  Ouida (1881). “Friendship, a Story”

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