Ecstasy Quotes

487 Ecstasy quotes by 311 unique authors

The best measure of a spiritual life is not its ecstasies but its obedience. — Oswald Chambers
It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion… — Thomas Hardy
It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has… — Karl Marx
Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you. — Rajneesh
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went… — Virginia Woolf
As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that… — William Butler Yeats
Her own body was such a familiar and unremarkable thing to her that she was puzzled by the convulsive ecstasy men could take from it,… — Joseph Heller
An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in… — Knut Hamsun
What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's… — Paulo Coelho
Let me stop there, but my God, how beautiful Shakespeare is, who else is as mysterious as he is; his language and method are like… — Vincent Van Gogh
What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness.… — Brennan Manning
From the time I began to read, as a child, I loved to feel their heft in my hand and the warm spot caused by… — Rita Dove
Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space,… — Paulo Coelho
Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more… — Anais Nin
No man will ever bring out of that office the reputation which carries him into it. The honeymoon would be as short in that case… — Thomas Jefferson
Naturally Shirley had known, as they slid stock words and phrases back and forth between them like beads on an abacus, that Howard must be… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of… — Terence McKenna
What for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it… — Hermann Hesse
Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow. — Paullina Simons
Go inwards. Find your inner space, and suddenly, you will find an explosion of light, of beauty, of ecstasy -as if suddenly thousands of roses… — Rajneesh
The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy. — Jack Kerouac
In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in… — Robert Bly
However, when given the chance, many people choose cocaine over love. I wouldn’t say that’s a bad choice. The endorphins released during infatuation are similar… — Pete Wentz
Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him… — James Joyce
Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those… — Jiddu Krishnamurti

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