Ambivalence Quote by Anonymous

Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

— Charles Baudelaire

Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a…

— Diane Ackerman

What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds…

— Hermann Hesse

“I call it the indescribable charm of life. It was a feeling of ecstasy that was almost distress when it came, because it came…

— Katharine Butler Hathaway

Life is beautiful, and terrible, and strange.

— Johnette Napolitano

There now ensued a series of incidents which transported me to the opposite extremes of ecstasy and horror; incidents which I tremble to recall…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

— John Updike

Life, in my view, is simple, tragic, and frighteningly beautiful.

— David Shields

We have two lives about us,Two worlds in which we dwell,Within us and without us,Alternate Heaven and Hell:-Without, the somber Real,Within, our hearts of…

— Richard Henry Stoddard

“With peaks of joy and valleys of heartache, life is a roller coaster ride, the rise and fall of which defines our journey. It…

— Sebastian Cole

I didn't have to scramble up and down the ladder from despair to euphoria anymore, trying to convince myself that life was either painful…

— Melody Beattie

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of…

— Anonymous