Ecstasy Quotes

487 Ecstasy quotes by 311 unique authors

Many women have described their experiences of childbirth as being associated with a spiritual uplifting, the power of which they have never previously been aware.… — Grantly Dick-Read
Hobgoblins know the proper way to dance: Arms akimbo, loopy legs askew, Leaping into darkness with delight, Lusting for the ecstasy of fright, Open to… — Nick Gordon
Meditation has to spread all over your life. Whatsoever you do, do meditatively. Walk meditatively, eat meditatively. If you are making love, make love meditatively.… — Rajneesh
I want more runs in baseball itself. When you were raised on a sandlot, where the scores ran twenty-three to sixty-one, you yearn for something… — Herbert Hoover
Love cannot exist in peace, it will always come accompanied by agonies, ecstasies, intense joys and profound sadnesses. — Paulo Coelho
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which… — Walter Pater
To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . Not the fruit of experience, but… — Walter Pater
The earth has disappeared beneath my feet, It fled from all my ecstasy. Now like a singing air creature I feel the rose keep opening. — Hafez
Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is… — Edward Abbey
Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy. — Margery Allingham
Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes. — Philip Larkin
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment â€“ and… — Dmitri Shostakovich
Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre. — Thomas Gray
It is music that welds spiritual and sensual, that can convey ecstasy free of guilt, faith without dogma, love as homage, and a person at… — Yehudi Menuhin
On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden… — Tom Robbins
If there is anything for which I would go back to childhood, and live this weary life over again, it is for the burning, exalting,… — Horace Mann
In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin. — Henry David Thoreau
Often, we melt into our ecstasies as though they were jams, as though we were sinking into syrupy bowls of gooseberries, of raspberries, of bilberries. — Violette Leduc
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something — Rita Dove
Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy… — Eugene H. Peterson

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