“He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.” — Mary Renault Copy Share Image
I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed. — Sharon Shinn Copy Share Image
We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture. — Coleman Barks Copy Share Image
“Seen at Liberty University: "I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due.” — Kevin Roose Copy Share Image
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“Never so sure our rapture to create As when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.” — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“there will be a literal rapture. First Thessalonians is an epistle (letter) written by the apostle Paul, and it contains straightforward statements… — Ron Rhodes Copy Share Image
Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest… — Ignacy Jan Paderewski Copy Share Image
“He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into… — Phillip W. Simpson Copy Share Image
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are… — Eric Horvitz Copy Share Image
It is like a woman indeed To take rapture before the fact is shown for true. They believe too easily, are too… — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise,… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you… — Rumi Copy Share Image
All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of… — Khalil Copy Share Image
“So the price of careless rapture is a twisted history chronicled by envy. You were too busy being. And you are too… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
Act! the wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants. Mark with deeds the vanishing traces of… — Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis Copy Share Image
Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“In fact, don’t believe most of what you read about the Rapture. Many Christians, particularly in North America, have been taught for… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“This, then, was the mystery that had so galled him,—this the cause of the quarrel with the Cardinal; this the secret not… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton Copy Share Image
Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism… — George William Curtis Copy Share Image
“ Rapture I can feel she has got out of bed. That means it is seven a.m. I have been lying with… — Galway Kinnell Copy Share Image
Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
AZRAEL: No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater... than central air. — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion. — Frederick Scott Oliver Copy Share Image
It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else. — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
