Joie De Vivre Quotes:

In #‎ France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

- Mireille Guiliano

topic: Taken, Mean, France, Joie De Vivre

Do not lose joy in life as you grow old in years. Let not your 'joie de vivre be crushed under the weight of years.

- Zoroaster

topic: Life, Years, Joy, Joie De Vivre

Embrace fanaticism. Harness joie de vivre by pursuing insane interests, consuming passions, and constant sources of gratification that do not depend on the approval of others

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

topic: Passion, Insane, Approval, Joie De Vivre, Approval Of Others

I suddenly understood that photography can fix eternity in a moment. It is the only photo that influenced me. There is such intensity in this image, such spontaneity, such joie de vivre, such miraculousness, that even today it still bowls me over.

- Henri Cartier-Bresson

topic: Photography, Today, Spontaneity, Joie De Vivre

Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.

- RuPaul

topic: Expression, Style, Force, Joie De Vivre

Naked girls with the heads of Marx and Malraux prone and helpless in the glare of the headlights, tried to give them a little joie de vivre but maybe it didn't take, their constant bickering and smallness, it's like a stroke of lightning, the world reminds you of its power, tracheotomies right and left, I am spinning, my pretty child, don't scratch, pick up your feet, the long nights, spent most of my time listening, this is a test of the system, this is only a test.

- Donald Barthelme

topic: Girl, Children, Night, Joie De Vivre, Long Nights

All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.

- Jay Griffiths

topic: Hate, Light, Shining, Wildness, Joie De Vivre

The first typical adolescent of modern times was Wagner's Siegfried. : the music of Siegfried expressed for the first time that combination of (provisional) purity, physical strength, naturism, spontaneity and joie de vivre which was to make the adolescent the hero of our twentieth century, the century of adolescence.

- Philippe Aries

source: Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

topic: Strength, Music, Hero, Joie De Vivre, Modern Times

Roberto Mancini's got that Italian style, the old joie de vivre.

- Perry Groves

topic: Football, Italian, Style, Joie De Vivre

Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.

- Sylvia Plath

topic: Self, Hurtful, Together, Joie De Vivre, Self Questioning

I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.

- Youssou N'Dour

topic: Happiness, Thinking, Community Living, Joie De Vivre

Have not Manet and Monet, Cézanne and Matisse, rendered to painting something of the same service which Keats and Shelley gave to poetry after the solemn and ceremonious literary perfections of the eighteenth century? They have brought back to the pictorial art a new draught of joie de vivre; and the beauty of their work is instinct with gaiety, and floats in sparkling air. I do not expect these masters would particularly appreciate my defence, but I must avow an increasing attraction to their work.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Art, Air, Appreciate, Joie De Vivre, Matisse

Good theatre draws the energies out of the place where it is and gives it back as joie de vivre.

- Joan Littlewood

topic: Giving, Theatre, Energy, Joie De Vivre

I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.

- Geena Davis

source: "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

topic: Growing Up, Self Esteem, Thinking, Joie De Vivre