“Looking upwards, she speculates still more ambitiously upon the nature of the moon, and if the stars are blazing jellies; looking downwards… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Five weeks since the Rapture “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,… — Phillip W. Simpson Copy Share Image
Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends...… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
A man has a choice. I chose the impossible. I built a city where the artist would not fear the censor, where… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we… — Leo Buscaglia Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
My own lov'd light, That very soft and solemn spirit worships, That lovers love so well--strange joy is thine, Whose influence o'er… — Charles Robert Maturin Copy Share Image
Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate,… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
“These boys ride the gales in rapture at their own glory. But every now and then, a true storm rises. It shatters… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and singing with rapture. There is not a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
There was Layla in the fullness of her lips, Lulu in the thick waves of her hair, Lu Xin in the intensity… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Days, when the ball of our vision Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun; When the graps on the bow was decision,… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Rapture cults had packed their suitcases and were massing together in great vigils, waiting for the end. "All bogus," she'd told Zuzana.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
To build a city at the bottom of the sea: insanity. But where else could we be free from the clutching hand… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
“He had always told her that there was only one existence, one science, one religion, that the external world was but a… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image