Rapture Quotes

The Rapture: The ultimate Republican back-up plan.

— Jon Stewart

“Art is a kind of rapture. Surrender enough, you find truth.”

— Kirsty Eagar

Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

— Emma Lazarus

I was petrified of the rapture.

— Ayo Edebiri

Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.

— Amy Lowell

I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.

— William Parrish

“Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture.”

— Chuck Klosterman

There is pleasure in the pathless woods.

— Lord Byron

We ought to dance with rapture that we should be alive and in the flesh, and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.

— D. H. Lawrence

Jesus, could you please rapture the charismaniac lady who brings her tambourine to church?

— Mark Driscoll

“The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)”

— Charles Stross

For words of rapture groping, they"Never such love," swore "ever before was!"

— Robert Graves

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

— Sharon Shinn

We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Just being sentient and in a body with the sun coming up is a state of rapture.

— Coleman Barks

“Never so sure our rapture to create As when it touch'd the brink of all we hate.”

— William Hazlitt

Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of…

— Louis Untermeyer

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

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken…

— Charles Edward Montague

Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask…

— Salvador Dali

Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing…

— Charles Churchill

There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end-…

— Leo Tolstoy

Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and…

— Gautama Buddha

I would like people to live in the present with eternity in mind. If there is, in fact, going to be rapture…

— Robert Jeffress

Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their…

— Aldous Huxley

“Light bursts behind my closed eyes, so intensely I nearly hear the popping sound. It's my brain melting, or my world ending,…

— Christina Lauren

“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very…

— George Eliot

It's amazing, the tremendous capacity of that marvelous final great Heavenly City that Jesus has gone to prepare and is now all…

— David Berg

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

It has a supernatural grandeur which expands the soul and unites it with God. I say an Our Father or a Hail…

— Therese of Lisieux

How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for…

— Salman Rushdie

If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the…

— Joseph Addison

[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male,…

— C. S. Lewis

The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as…

— Aleister Crowley

What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our…

— George Eliot

“I believe the signs we are seeing today most certainly point to the rapture of the church. These are indeed end times.…

— Leslie Haskin

I mean, you're right about the fire and war, all that. But that Rapture stuff--well, if you could see them all in…

— Terry Pratchett

“In fact, don’t believe most of what you read about the Rapture. Many Christians, particularly in North America, have been taught for…

— N.T. Wright

“Note, though, something else of great significance about the whole Christian theology of resurrection, ascension, second coming, and hope. This theology was…

— N.T. Wright

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose…

— Walter Scott