Quotes from Tobi
ExploreThe GraphMy LikesMy ListsSearchSubmit
Sign in
 All topics

Topic  ·  7 quotes

Quotes about Delight

7 quotes about delight, from Thomas Jefferson, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Bertrand Russell and others.

Quotes

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh.
Doris Lessing
One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.
Anthony Burgess
The delights of self-discovery are always available.
Gail Sheehy
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Bertrand Russell

Most quoted on delight

  • Thomas Jefferson1
  • Fyodor Dostoevsky1
  • Bertrand Russell1
  • Doris Lessing1
  • Lucius Annaeus Seneca1
  • Gail Sheehy1
No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Thomas Jefferson
I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Nothing delights the mind as much as loving and loyal friendship.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

See also

Where delight leads

See Delight in the graph 
  • Garden 49 quotes
  • Culture 58 quotes
  • Suffering 60 quotes
  • Value 205 quotes
  • Mathematics 11 quotes
  • Excellence 81 quotes
  • Heat 2 quotes
  • Sanity 16 quotes
  • Friendship 154 quotes

Built in DUS with a Keyboard

and Claude Code