Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish…

Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect…

— Helen Garner

Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the…

— Dalai Lama

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

Anywhere everywhere! Anything anyhow! just dance!

— Rajneesh

Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

— Amy Lowell

I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself…

— Herbert Spencer

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.

— Edward Hopper

The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile…

— Derek Walcott

“She had never before suffered from claustrophobia, but the room seemed too small to contain Luke's elation, and she felt that she could be…

— Esther Spurrill Jones

The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was,…

— Mark Helprin

I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay,…

— James Lipton

There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: hail to the morning!…

— Jessica Powers

The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved the national…

— Neil Armstrong

Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing the work.…

— Tim Zuck