Hidden Joy Quotes

Joy lives concealed in grief.

I don't smile as much as I should, even though I smile inside a lot.

My father was a preacher so I wouldn't sing at all when he was around, but as soon as he locked the door, 'La la la.'

I was sure that somewhere a grandiose carnival was going on in the sky, and I was missing it.

I might love dancing more than I should admit. But not in public.

There is more of fear than delight in a secret pleasure.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

None mourn more ostentatiously over the death of Germanicus than those who most rejoice at it [a death].

Throughout his life the memory of that happy day stayed locked secretly in (his) heart.

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

I'm really happy. I just don't choose to show it.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

Grieve not because thou understand-not life's mystery; behind the veil is concealed many a delight.

Behind all this, some great happiness is hiding.

This world is so full of care and sorrow that it is a gracious debt we owe to one another to discover the bright crystals of delight hidden in somber circumstances and irksome tasks.