Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. — Doug Larson 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
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
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
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
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
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
So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over. — Elizabeth Wurtzel 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
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
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
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
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
The stories of The End of Free Love mark a great beginning. They are seductive and migratory, tapped into our earliest sense… — Noy Holland 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the… — Jess C Scott 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
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
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
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
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
It's difficult for me to be around anyone for longer than an hour. Love, death, elation, sorrow, I just don't care all… — Henry Rollins 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
I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I… — Herbert Spencer 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
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
Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
“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 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
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
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