About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy). — Alexander Calder Copy Share Image
Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. — Doug Larson Copy Share Image
Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb. — Darren Hayes Copy Share Image
Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair. — Warren Buffett 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
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
So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after… — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I could be really sad and I start to cry; I feel alive then. I could be at a concert and I… — Michael Franti 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
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
The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace,… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
“She had never before suffered from claustrophobia, but the room seemed too small to contain Luke's elation, and she felt that she… — Esther Spurrill Jones 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
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
The exciting part for me, as a pilot, was the landing on the moon. That was the time that we had achieved… — Neil Armstrong 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
Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into… — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the… — Wallace Stevens 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
Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication… Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths… But in… — Seneca the Younger 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
“She said she hoped she would see me again, and the next thing I knew I was running through light snow back… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
But away from the rituals of Washington, alongside the elation of [Donald] Trump supporters, there is deep anxiety, anger and fear. — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright… — Bill W Copy Share Image
Amazing is he who laughs, even though the fire is in front of him, and he feels elation, while death is awaiting... — Ritu Ghatourey 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
“For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image