(462 quotes found)
“There is space within sisterhood for likeness and difference, for the subtle differences that challenge and delight; there is space for disappointment-and surprise”
Christine Downing
“The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled.”
William Blake
“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.”
Kahlil Gibran
“To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.”
William Shakespeare
“I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.”
Walt Whitman
“Energy is eternal delight”
“The moon, like a flowerIn heaven's high bower,With silent delightSits and smiles on the night.”
“I know the dark delight of being strange,/ The penalty of difference in the crowd,/ The loneliness of wisdom among fools . . .”
Claude McKay