Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying… — A. Edward Newton Copy Share Image
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“That is what grace does. It comes as a surprise; it lingers in the rare atmosphere of love, since love itself is… — Walter Wangerin Jr Copy Share Image
I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over… — Boy George Copy Share Image
“Wondered to see, these luscious Flowers'' ''Blossoming everywhere, like drops of Shower'' ''WISH! My ecstasy would has that Power'' ''Days come true!… — Samar Sudha Copy Share Image
From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Rock... is the expression of elemental passions... In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Should I stop?” he said. I heard voices from far away and he stopped moving his fingers. I grabbed his wrist and… — Ava Ayers Copy Share Image
This silent cry is of ecstasy for what has been done, and of despair at being forestalled, and being thus forewarned, that… — Hal Porter Copy Share Image
“How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I was on a TV show when I was 13, and I had a tutor for high school. Everyone was like "Oh,… — Jessica Alba Copy Share Image
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
The chords in 'Light My Fire' are based on [John] Coltrane's version of this song. He just solos over A minor and… — Robby Krieger Copy Share Image
The key to happiness: You may speak of love and tenderness and passion, but real ecstasy is discovering you haven't lost your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love gives us copious potions of delight, Of pain and ecstasy, and peace and care; Love leads us upward, to the mountain… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
The ecstasy and completion of absorption in God is so fantastic that you can't possibly have lost anything because all the things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Don’t go to a museum with a destination. Museums are wormholes to other worlds. There are ecstasy machines. Follow your eyes to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening… — J. Christopher Stevens Copy Share Image
The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Everyone's looking for the perfect teacher, but although their teachings might be divine, teachers are all too human, and that's something people… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
Give and Take... For to the bee a flower is a fountain if life And to the flower a bee is a… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
My zest for exhibition has over a long career become increasingly a mania. The ecstasy I feel as I survey work I… — Joseph Plaskett Copy Share Image
There is no other greater ecstasy, no other greater blissfulness, than to know who you are. To know the inner space is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the country It seems as if every tree Said to me 'Holy! Holy!' Who can ever express The ecstasy of the… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . Not the fruit… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
We shall creep out quietly into the butler's pantry--" cried the Mole. "--with out pistols and swords and sticks--" shouted ther Rat.… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Which is more important - experience or memory of experience? If you could have an hour of ecstasy that you'd forever remember… — Daniel Gilbert Copy Share Image
“In the four hundred years since the last devouring soul appeared; the last man to know the meaning of ecstasy, there has… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Call'd him soft names in… — John Keats Copy Share Image
An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings,… — Sara Teasdale Copy Share Image
I will cover you with love when next I see you, with caresses, with ecstasy. I want to gorge you with all… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“She once told me of a night that fumed with escapes and was filled with bedsides reeking of ecstasy; she told me… — Dave Matthes Copy Share Image