„Just rejoice at that news and congratulate our forces and the marines… Rejoice.“

— Margaret Thatcher
„I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth. The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov. It's as if someone were beating you with a stick and saying, "Your business is rejoicing, your business is rejoicing," and you rise, shaky, and go marching off, muttering, "Our business is rejoicing, our business is rejoicing."“
— Dmitri Shostakovich
„We hate war. We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown, and when strawberries bloom in Israel.“
— Golda Meir
„I think it is clear to everyone what happens in the Fifth. The rejoicing is forced, created under threat, as in Boris Godunov.“
— Dmitri Shostakovich
„Because I cannot hope to turn againConsequently I rejoice, having to construct somethingUpon which to rejoice“
— T.S. Eliot
„All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.“
— Marie Curie
„Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing, but of reflection.“
— Winston S. Churchill
„I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!“
— Helen Keller