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)