Even in rapture, part of the mind watches.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

— Albert Camus

They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in…

— Teresa of Avila

“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks and tear your clothes — destroying everything…

— Kamand Kojouri

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

— Sharon Shinn

Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from…

— Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.”

— Kamand Kojouri

I reject all evidence that my fabulous beloved is an ordinary person who worries, watches TV, and has bouts of indigestion.

— Mason Cooley

If a person measures his spiritual fulfillment in terms of cosmic visions, surpassing peace of mind, or ecstasy, then he is not likely to…

— Arthur Miller

The body has a mind of its own.

— Mason Cooley

“sleep soon!” Rapture From Temporal to Eternal In the blink of an eye. Skinned, deboned And winged to fly!”

— Daniel Torridon

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.…

— Washington Irving

The holy grail is right here in this gem of a book. Tosha Silver’s wisdom goes down as easy as a mint milkshake and…

— Lissa Rankin

“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range…

— George Eliot

Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes…

— John Armstrong