Andre Gide Joy Quotations

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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