#delight

Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit, to become delightful happiness must be tainted with poison. ↗

— Georges Bataille

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We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#belief #delightful #given #had #him

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defiled. ↗

— William Blake

#never #soul #sweet

I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying. ↗

— Arsene Wenger

#am #any #course #delighted #doubt

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#experience #had #those #war #who

My disorder has been attended with several symptoms of a consumption; and I have been at times apprehensive that my great change was at hand: yet blessed be God, I have never been affrighted; but, on the contrary, at times much delighted with a view of its approach. ↗

— David Brainerd

#approach #attended #been #blessed #blessed be

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#feed #flame #frame #his #love