Top 50 Joyous Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Joyous Quotes from famous people such as Cori Bush, Tamera Mowry, James Stephens, Julia Roberts, Rudolf Hilferding, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Freedom is not simply intended to mean freedom from ens

Freedom is not simply intended to mean freedom from enslavement. Freedom is an affirmative goal, it is one that promises liberation, safety, and peace of mind. It is the promise of a full, prosperous, and joyous life.
Cori Bush
Finding out I was pregnant was one of the most joyous moments in my life. I will never forget it.
Tamera Mowry
The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes to the logical extreme. It is urgent, therefore, that we be joyous if we wish to live.
James Stephens
Going to the theater is such a joyous experience.
Julia Roberts
For in the theoretical field bourgeois economics no longer engages in blithe and joyous fights.
Rudolf Hilferding
I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.
Naveen Andrews
When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.
Laini Taylor
War and armed conflict disproportionately affect women and can turn what is supposed to be a joyous and beautiful experience – childbirth – into a horrific or even fatal one.
Philomena Kwao
I wish I was more stupid because I’m either completely ecstatic and joyous and absolutely high as a kite or I’m a bit morbid. There’s never anything in between.
Paloma Faith
If we wish our nature to be free and joyous, we should bring our activities into same order.
Vinoba Bhave
Life and families and babies are all joyous gifts. But if we do not begin to truly account for our numbers, we will surely create an ecological crisis that will only lead to anguish and despair.
Jason Alexander
I always say that when I see that needle start to go in the other direction, when people have had enough of me, I’m going to be smart enough to say goodbye. It’s such a joyous ride to be on top, and it takes away from that ride if you sort of ride it down.
Judy Sheindlin
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential – the imagination.
Lawrence Durrell
I remember the absolute, joyous freedom I felt when I first went to college: I had no bedtime, no curfew, no rules – I loved it. I was in charge. I couldn’t believe I didn’t have to answer to anyone.
Karen Finerman
Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.
Charles Buxton
Christmas has rarely been a joyous time for me. I’m estranged from my family, and sometimes I don’t have my oldest daughter with me.
Stephanie Land
Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
Oscar Wilde
The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.
Carl Sagan
I think to have done ‘Titanic’ would have been a tortuous experience altogether. I feel good about where my life is, now. I feel free and joyous and happy and more liberated than I have ever been.
Fay Wray
I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile, and I want to make people laugh. And that’s all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.
Doris Day
When you don’t have food in your life, just for a day, it makes you realise you’re lucky to have it the next day. So the day after fasting, the music that comes out will be very joyous.
Chris Martin
I am sure that the sad days and happenings were rare, and that I lived the joyous and careless life of other children; but just because the happy days were so habitual to me they made no impression upon my mind, and I can no longer recall them.
Pierre Loti
And working on ‘Grantchester’ is a joy. Ive been in the business for 35 years and Ive never been on a film set that is so joyous and life-affirming.
Robson Green
To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
Florence Griffith Joyner
The finite play for life is serious; the infinite play of life is joyous.
James P. Carse
Why a musician loves playing jazz or classical music or what makes them happy, and why an artist likes to paint – it’s so hard to actually put into words what that feeling is of joy that we get, but that is what I get: a feeling of joy when the camera is rolling, even if I’m doing something that is not joyous.
Elisabeth Moss
If I’m happy and joyous, which I have been a lot in my life, thankfully, I’m usually not at the piano writing about it.
Beth Hart
Honestly, my favorite kind of dancing is just lettin’ loose. There’s something great about the carefree flinging of your body to great music. It can be so joyous.
Alison Brie
Drag has always inspired people to come together to be joyous and fight for what matters. If we can do it through beauty and positivity and lip-syncing our favorite pop songs, then let’s do it.
Sasha Velour
Singing for me has always been a joyous but private pleasure that connects me in a lyric thread to my beloved grandmother Alice.
Hamish Bowles
My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just – he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don’t know that he was parented that well.
Carrie Fisher
I love writing music for film and TV, but putting it in

I love writing music for film and TV, but putting it into a video game is twice as fun because it needs to be repeatable and joyous.
Kristian Bush
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle
A trip to the picture framer’s, with a selection of prints, is the most joyous outing I can imagine. I’ve spent more money on framing than on anything else I own.
Eleanor Catton
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
Walker Evans
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.
Paul Hawken
It’s all being true to yourself, being genuine and being the most authentic version of yourself that you can be. I think that can lead to a really happy and joyous life.
Stephanie Labbe
The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.
David Icke
I think if you know one direction, then you can feel the other one. I don’t think you can be truly, insanely joyous if you haven’t ever felt the flip side of it.
Perfume Genius
It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.
Rhys Ifans
Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to crime: the realistically detailed police procedural, usually grim and downbeat, and the more left-field, joyous theatre of ideas in which past masters once specialised. Knowing that I would never be able to handle the former, I set about reviving the latter.
Christopher Fowler
I think I was always joyous, but I don’t think I became very aware of positivity and its power until I became older. I always did it naturally, but then I lost it, and it forced me to find it again and appreciate it more.
Keke Palmer
It’s nice to be irritated. It’s a very joyous thing.
John Lydon
The fact is, everything we want or yearn for is won through other people. No man on an island is happy; he is merely existing. The joyous life is the one filled with rich relationships.
Vernon Howard
Camphor Cinema is nothing but an extension of family – courteous, kind, joyous and focused. It is like a close-knit family working hard for a celebration.
Thalaivasal Vijay
We are united in that we are all human beings, and we are all together on this horrible, painful, joyous, exciting, and mysterious ride that is being alive.
David Harbour
Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.
Julia Roberts
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort – the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing – the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
Andy Rooney
Day of the Dead. Sounds a little spooky doesn’t it? It’s actually one of the most colorful and joyous of Mexican holidays.
Marcela Valladolid
Audience laughter, when it’s deserved, acts as a sort of fairy dust that makes funny moments not just funny, but joyous.
Graham Linehan