Ecstasy Quote by A. J. Liebling

“I began to perceive more deeply than it has ever yet been stated, the trembling immateriality, the mistlike transience, of this seemingly so solid…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“I believe we were created for ecstasy. And redeemed for it, at considerable cost. Certain vagrant moments are, moreover, clues to the narrative structure…

— Daniel Berigan

“Writhing bodies fused as one on the dance floor, limbs tingling, lungs drunk on the lust-filled air.”

— Sidney Knight

“This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most carefully studied…

— Théophile Gautier

“He was an awkward mixture of strong moral impulse and restless aesthetic curiosity, and yet he would have made a most ineffective reformer and…

— Henry James

“[Henry] felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own which he…

— Jane Austen

“If there were a place that we didn't know of, and there, on some unsayable carpet, lovers displayed what they never could bring to…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“One night I begged Robin, a scientist by training, to watch Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' with me on PBS. He lasted about…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

“Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful”

— Oscar Wilde

“Like a tightrope walker who has forgotten how to put one foot in front of the other, all I felt was the swaying of…

— W.G. Sebald

“Even there, intimacy evolved its alchemy. A solemn marble stairway led to corridors covered with red carpets, upon which one moved noiselessly.”

— Jean Genet

“use His tricks for our purposes.  In his book, The Abolition of Man, C.S Lewis grasped this phenomenon with uncanny insight, writing:”

— Bō Jinn