Andre Gide Joy Quotations

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.