"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

Delight, Statesman, Lucius Annaeus Seneca

91

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"There is no delight in owning anything unshared."

Exlpore more Delight quotes

"Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage."

Paul Engle, American Poet

Delight, Grief, Words

"Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing."

Austin Dobson, English Celebrity

Delight, Night, Sense

"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."

Arthur Schopenhauer, German Philosopher

Delight, Man, Pleasure, Satisfaction

"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

William Blake, English Poet

Delight, Energy

"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"

Edmund Spenser, English Poet

Delight, Liberty

"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

Amos Bronson Alcott, American Educator

Delight, Expectation, Profit

"It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good."

Sarah Addison Allen, American Novelist

Delight, Joy, Comfort, Emotion, Memory

"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

Emile M. Cioran, Romanian Philosopher

Delight,

"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."

Henry Alford, English Clergyman

Delight,

"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."

Isaac Asimov, American Scientist

Delight,

Explore more quotes by Seneca

"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."

Anger

"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

Man

"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."

Friendship

"One crime has to be concealed by another."

Crime

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

Learning

"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."

Behavior

"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."

Learning

91

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Delight quotes

"Verse is not written, it is bled; Out of the poet's abstract head. Words drip the poem on the page; Out of his grief, delight and rage."

"Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour - let no night Seal thy sense in deathly slumber Till to delight Thou hast paid thy utmost blessing."

"A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes."

"Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence."

"What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?"

"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."

"It was like the way you wanted sunshine on Saturdays, or pancakes for breakfast. They just made you feel good."

"When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves."

"I know not if the dark or bright shall be by lot; if that wherein my hopes delight be best or not."

"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing."

Explore more quotes by Seneca

"The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger."

"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

"All art is but imitation of nature."

"A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature."

"Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb."

"Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."

"One crime has to be concealed by another."

"As long as you live, keep learning how to live."

"A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant."

"The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned."