What is joy?

Famous quotes containing the word joy:

    “As night falls, every joy glows brighter.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    ““Though logic-choppers rule the town,
    And every man and maid and boy
    Has marked a distant object down,
    An aimless joy is a pure joy....””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “There’s not a joy the world can give like that it takes away,”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)