Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Mitchell) Quotes

I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

Joni Mitchell

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• I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Anger
  • Paint
  • Someone

• I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Mom

• A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road - you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Experience
  • Joy

• I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Dance

• It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Me
  • Child
  • Paint

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• Praised be the fathomless universeFor life and joy and for objects and knowledge curious;And for love, sweet love-But praise! O praise and praiseFor the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding Death.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Life
  • Death
  • Knowledge

• And as, in ethics, Evil is a consequence of Good, so, in fact, out of Joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day, or the agonies which are, have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Good
  • Past
  • Joy

• Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. Not in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth; Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Men
  • Alone
  • Joy

• It's always great to see young swimmers and their excitement and the joy that they have in the water.

  

  Katie Ledecky
  • Great
  • Water
  • Joy

• I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Joy

• It doesn't matter how your child comes to you. I've never felt such joy and such love. It's the most beautiful delicious little thing.

  

  Didi Conn
  • Beautiful
  • Joy

• There's a certain amount of joy in playing a character in the moment and not knowing what's going to roll out as it goes on. It's a bit like life, in a way.

  

  Liam Cunningham
  • Life
  • Character
  • Joy

• Christmas is joy, religious joy, an inner joy of light and peace.

  

  Pope Francis
  • Light
  • Peace
  • Joy

• We've become so accustomed to teaching to the tests that we've forgotten about a child's joy of discovery.

  

  Elizabeth Esty
  • Joy

• It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • Great
  • Joy

• Even though we sometimes would not get a thing, we were happy with the joy the day would bring.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Happy
  • Day
  • Joy

• There is no joy in the soul that has forgotten what God prizes.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Soul
  • Joy

• The eyes mirror the heart of a person. An entire life can be seen through them. Love, sorrow, deceit, pain. If you look closely, it’s all there.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Life
  • Love
  • Pain

• Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.

  

  Wolcott Gibbs
  • Anything
  • Except
  • Cliche

• The man who is secure within himself has no need to prove anything with force, so he can walk away from a fight with dignity and pride. He is the true martial artist--a man so strong inside that he has no need to demonstrate his power.

  

  Ed Parker
  • Men
  • Power
  • True

• Every day, I wake up, and the first thing I think of is my kids.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Kids
  • Wake Up
  • First Thing

• Well, you know, Hubbard had a bunch of people sworn to commit suicide when he died. So of course he never officially died...

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Suicide

• I paint my joy and I sing my sorrow.

  

  Joni Mitchell
  • Joy
  • Sorrow
  • Paint