Ecstasy Quotes
487 quotes by 313 authors
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
— Charles Baudelaire
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The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut,…
— Robert Browning
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If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
— Jean Cocteau
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I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every man's thinking is an extension,…
— Walter Russell
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When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and we stand, and…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth.
— Alexander Pushkin
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of…
— Leo Buscaglia
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This is the very ecstasy of love.
— William Shakespeare
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I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
— Therese of Lisieux
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Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith, and trust. Those…
— Martin Seligman
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We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle.…
— Carl Sagan
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Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty. Prayer includes moments…
— Philip Yancey
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An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of…
— Pope John XXIII
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There are different points of view about how to approach this experience of ultimate ecstasy, as some people describe it, or ultimate nirvana or ultimate…
— Tony Robbins
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The guru is just trying to help you, to bring you to a point where you can at least surrender the ego. Then a deep…
— Rajneesh
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Relaxation is one of the most complex phenomena - very rich, multidimensional. All these things are part of it: let-go, trust, surrender, love, acceptance, going…
— Rajneesh
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There is no violent surface indication of the ecstasy which great thinkers alone enjoy. There is nothing dramatic about it, but there is some subtle…
— Walter Russell
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By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires which…
— Walter Russell
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