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Ecstasy Quotes by Walter Pater
- 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…
- To burn always with this hard, gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life . . . Not the fruit of experience, but…
- To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
More Ecstasy Quotes
- Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. — Honore de Balzac
- As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. — Charles Baudelaire
- The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms… — Robert Browning
- If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. — Jean Cocteau
- I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every man's thinking… — Walter Russell
- When our children die, we drop them into the unknown, shuddering with fear. We know that they go out from us, and… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth. — Alexander Pushkin
- Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often… — Leo Buscaglia
- This is the very ecstasy of love. — William Shakespeare
- I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul. — Therese of Lisieux
- Positive emotion can be about the past, the present, or the future. The positive emotions about the future include optimism, hope, faith,… — Martin Seligman
- We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is… — Carl Sagan