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
I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Copy Share Image
If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won.… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her pets.""True," Derian assured… — Jane Lindskold Copy Share Image
For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
