Ecstatic Quotes
144 quotes by 118 authors
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I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen…
— William Faulkner
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If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.
— John D. MacDonald
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What if more women, mothers, gave birth as an ecstatic celebration of female sexuality? Mothers who do will often declare, "Now I can do anything!"…
— Jeannine Parvati Baker
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The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free…
— Henri Nouwen
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I always dreamed about scoring at St. James' Park. I fancied my chances and the ball flew into the net. I was ecstatic.
— Alan Shearer
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Beyond these models of reconciliation, a theology of mysticism provides some hope for common ground between Christianity and Islam. Both religions have within their histories…
— Tony Campolo
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The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is…
— Anthony Storr
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Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say.
— Rumi
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As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition -…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.
— Curt Sachs
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You yourself are in an ecstatic state to such a point that you feel as though you almost don't exist. I've experienced this time and…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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What everyone forgets is that passion is not merely a heightened sensual fusion but a way of life which produces, as in the mystics, an…
— Anais Nin
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Diane Cluck is a virtuosic talent with an emotionality that feels at once ancient and alien. Her mastery of her voice as an ecstatic instrument…
— Antony Hegarty
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The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed…
— Eric Butterworth
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Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making…
— Rumi
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I'm different than most people...when I cross the finish line of a big race, I see that people are ecstatic, but I'm thinking about what…
— David Goggins
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To be a writer, a creative person, you must retain your ability to react uniquely. Your feelings must remain your own. The day you mute…
— Dwight V. Swain
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It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the…
— Debi Thomas
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I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic…
— Sarah Lacy
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