He captured my heart. He loves me for who I am, not what I can bring to him." - Lucinda Price, Rapture — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I… — Tom Perrotta Copy Share Image
Among the poor, the approach of dissolution is usually regarded with a quiet and natural composure, which it is consolatory to contemplate,… — Robert Southey Copy Share Image
He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and… — Thaddeus Stevens Copy Share Image
Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Jesus, could you please rapture the charismaniac lady who brings her tambourine to church? — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow And be not happy like a naked star, Yet from the thought of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No... not the artful postures of love, not… — Marc Norman Copy Share Image
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter;… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
By inner experience I understand that which one usually calls mystical experience: the states of ecstasy, of rapture, at least of meditated… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
