To die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
“Being bad is not good but too sad, and being good is not at all bad. Is this simple equation, And that's… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We'll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution… — Vince Lombardi Copy Share Image
Work is the vessel into which we pour so much of ourselves hope and disappointment, elation and rage, satisfaction and frustration. Yet… — Lisa Belkin Copy Share Image
The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold,… — Joseph Wood Krutch Copy Share Image
Of course, art in and of itself gives me some feeling of elation or power and is in some way curative. But… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere,… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Making a painting is like having sex for a month or something. Then I go through this period of elation at finishing… — Tim Zuck Copy Share Image
I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes dragged into a pit of unhappiness by someone else’s opinion that we do not look happy.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“My arms are light and free and my body is outstretched, kissing the blue streaks. I can breathe freely here. It is… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest. — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
To any intelligent being, there is no emotion more important than hope. Individually or collectively, we must hope that the future will… — R. A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
People who have lived through a war know that as it approaches, an at first secret, unacknowledged, elation begins, as if an… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of… — Arthur Godfrey Copy Share Image
The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion. — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood — Chris Hadfield Copy Share Image
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
“Silent our body is a sacred temple, A place to connect with other people. Can't we just stay any younger? Really, we… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of… — Jonathan Aitken Copy Share Image
I still wanted to see it officially on the scoreboard but, when it was announced 'Denise Lewis is Olympic champion,' it was… — Denise Lewis Copy Share Image
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself…You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to… — Robert Doisneau Copy Share Image
The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters.… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous… — Ken Dodd Copy Share Image
