Delight Quotes

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

Suffering makes us capable of the full force of the Master of Delight; it makes us capable also to bear the utter play of the Master of Power. Pain is the key that opens the gates of strength; it is the high-road that leads to the city of beatitude.

Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it’s all about: the delight of being a servant.

There is no reward so delightful, no pleasure so exquisite, as having one’s work known and acclaimed by those whose applause confers honor.

Woman is a delightful instrument of pleasure, but it is necessary to know its trembling strings, to study the position of them, the timid keyboard, the fingering so changeful and capricious which befits it.

The psychotic drowns in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight.

Sharing tea with a fascinating stranger is one of life’s true delights.

I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.

I have friends whose society is delightful to me; they are persons of all countries and of all ages; distinguished in war, in council, and in letters; easy to live with, always at my command.

Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.