Joyless Quotes 

The Redbreast, sacred to the household gods, Wisely regardful of the embroiling sky, In joyless fields and thorny thickets leaves His shivering mates, and pays to trusted Man His annual visit.
James Thomson
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Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth, And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

— 'To the Moon' (published1824).

Tags: Art, pale, weariness, climbing, heaven, gazing, earth, Wandering, companionless

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Paradise itself were dimAnd joyless, if not shared with him!

thomas moore

— Part VI

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Pan's Labyrinth works on so many levels that it seems to change shape even as you watch it. It is, at times, a joyless picture, and its pall of sadness can begin to weigh you down.

stephanie zacharek

— Review of Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

Tags: Pan's, Labyrinth, works, levels, change, shape, you, watch, times

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It will be a great day for America, incidentally, when we begin to eat bread again, instead of the blasphemous and tasteless foam rubber that we have substituted for it. And I am not being frivolous here, either. Something very sinister happens to the people of a country when they begin to distrust their own reactions as deeply as they do here, and become as joyless as they have become.

james baldwin

— The Fire Next Time (1963)

Tags: great, day, America, incidentally, when, we, begin, eat, bread

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His eye a ring inside a ring inside a ring That leers up, joyless, vile, in meek obscenity This is the devil. Flesh to flesh, he bleats The herd back to the pit of being.

Randall Jarrell

— "The Knight, Death and the Devil," lines 17-20

Tags: eye, ring, inside, vile, meek, obscenity, devil, Flesh, bleats

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Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgastic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.

betty friedan

— Ch. 11 "The Sex-Seekers"

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The connotation of the Sanskrit word for a hell, Naraka, is a joyless.


— Alexander Berzin, in Wise Teacher, Wise Student: Tibetan Approaches to a Healthy Relationship, Snow Lion Publications, 16 June 2010, p.191

Tags: connotation, Sanskrit, word, hell, Naraka

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