George L. P. Du Maurier Quotes

DU MAURIER, George L. P. Quotes

(1834-1896), English artist and novelist

Joy

Poor human nature, so richly endowed with nerves of anguish, so splendidly organized for pain and sorrow, is but slenderly equipped for joy. . . . A sense of ineffable joy, attainable at will, and equal in intensity and duration to (let us say) an attack of sciatica, would go far to equalize the one-sided conditions under which we live.