Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs. — Joan Rivers Copy Share Image
Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out… — William Maxwell Copy Share Image
The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind. — Stanley Kunitz Copy Share Image
Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy. — Clive Bell Copy Share Image
“I walk making up phrases; sit, contriving scenes; am in short in the thick of the greatest rapture known to me.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Sometimes painfully lost people can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know, or be reminded of---the more history… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
For every rapture there is a price and nothing is sustained forever. The path that destiny takes in the end leads to… — Dorothy Fuldheim Copy Share Image
When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really… — Dorothy Maclean Copy Share Image
Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow And be not happy like a naked star, Yet from the thought of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to… — Eugene Linden Copy Share Image
It was rapture enough just to sit there beside him in silence, alone in the summer night in the white splendor of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Scuba diving, from the beginning, had an air of dangerous allure. Every landlocked schoolboy knew of its intriguing hazards: the bends, which… — Stephen Harrigan Copy Share Image
“One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks and tear your clothes —… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter;… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized on his heart. She was standing talking to a… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“No ancient Jew was ever promised, or expected, a heavenly life. That was a wild and outrageous teaching of Jesus. Holy text… — Michael Ben Zehabe Copy Share Image
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“Note, though, something else of great significance about the whole Christian theology of resurrection, ascension, second coming, and hope. This theology was… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male,… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I believe the signs we are seeing today most certainly point to the rapture of the church. These are indeed end times.… — Leslie Haskin Copy Share Image
I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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