It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself…You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair. — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony. — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Praise with elation Praise every morning Spring's re-creation Of the First Day! — Eleanor Farjeon Copy Share Image
“For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“She had never before suffered from claustrophobia, but the room seemed too small to contain Luke's elation, and she felt that she… — Esther Spurrill Jones Copy Share Image
“Silent our body is a sacred temple, A place to connect with other people. Can't we just stay any younger? Really, we… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold,… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for… — William Stafford Copy Share Image
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
I could be really sad and I start to cry; I feel alive then. I could be at a concert and I… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Of course, art in and of itself gives me some feeling of elation or power and is in some way curative. But… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere,… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing… — Tim Zuck Copy Share Image
I still wanted to see it officially on the scoreboard but, when it was announced 'Denise Lewis is Olympic champion,' it was… — Denise Lewis Copy Share Image
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won.… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
