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
“Looking upwards, she speculates still more ambitiously upon the nature of the moon, and if the stars are blazing jellies; looking downwards… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends...… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Five weeks since the Rapture “For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,… — Phillip W. Simpson Copy Share Image
You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of… — Anthony Kiedis Copy Share Image
“One year before the Rapture "...that proves how marvellous God's love is, even for the most miserable human beings, being that demons… — Phillip W. Simpson Copy Share Image
If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“He felt as if a clear light broke upon his mind, and with it a conviction that, good was, after all, stronger… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
When you become a Christian, all of a sudden you start to live on this rapture mentality, like tomorrow the world's going… — Sonny Sandoval Copy Share Image
The first kiss ideally signals rapture, exchange of hearts, and imminent marriage. Otherwise it is a kiss that lies. All very crude… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The holy grail is right here in this gem of a book. Tosha Silver’s wisdom goes down as easy as a mint… — Lissa Rankin Copy Share Image
Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
“The Bible tells us the messiah will only return AFTER we've had the final battle between God's children and the army of… — Raymond Khoury Copy Share Image
I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“Have you ever wondered why you did not rapture and go to heaven the day you became a Christian? It is because… — Pedro Okoro Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination,… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“He felt something trickle down his face and he wiped it away irritably. When he looked at the back of his hand,… — Phillip W. Simpson Copy Share Image
I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Then, when the rapture does come, His people, by then relocated in other nations than their native America, will be alive to… — John Price Copy Share Image
There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him,… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Rapture cults had packed their suitcases and were massing together in great vigils, waiting for the end. "All bogus," she'd told Zuzana.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“He had always told her that there was only one existence, one science, one religion, that the external world was but a… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
To build a city at the bottom of the sea: insanity. But where else could we be free from the clutching hand… — Andrew Ryan Copy Share Image
The best moments involve a loss of control. It's a kind of rapture, and it can happen with words and phrases fairly… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Days, when the ball of our vision Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun; When the graps on the bow was decision,… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining… — Edwin Markham Copy Share Image
How fair doth Nature Appear again! How bright the sunbeams! How smiles the plain! The flow'rs are bursting From ev'ry bough, And… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
A thing there was that mattered; a thing, wreathed about with chatter, defaced, obscured in her own life, let drop every day… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I have drunk the night and swallowed the stars. I am dancing with abandon and singing with rapture. There is not a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
There was Layla in the fullness of her lips, Lulu in the thick waves of her hair, Lu Xin in the intensity… — Lauren Kate Copy Share Image
![“Philip Glass, like [Virginia] Woolf, is more interested in that which continues than he is in that which begins, climaxes, and ends... Glass and Woolf have both broken out of the traditional realm of the story, whether literary or musical, in favor of something more meditative, less neatly…” quote by Michael Cunningham](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c6f/michael-cunningham-1120_broken_philip-glass-like-virginia-woolf-is-more_1216205.jpg)
![“I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some kind of total creative, imaginative rapture over that movie that propelled this industry of Mary Poppins drawings, plays, performances - just an obsessive, creative reaction to it.” quote by Todd Haynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5ee/todd-haynes-2626_creative_i-was-3-years-old-and-mary-poppins-1964_1785704.jpg)
![“I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do return, living, to the world bring, inevitably, a unique point of view that is a nightmare, a treasure, and a lifelong possession.[It is] equal in its rapture…” quote by Janet Frame](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/736/janet-frame-8769_ancient_i-inhabited-a-territory-of-loneliness-wh_467486.jpg)
