Elation Quotes
52 quotes by 49 authors
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When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them…
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time someone would come…
— Anderson Cooper
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
— Doug Larson
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To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.
— Vince Lombardi
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There will be something anguish or elation that is peculiar to this day alone. I rise from sleep and say: hail to the morning! come…
— Jessica Powers
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Growth is a greater mystery than death. All of us can understand failure, we all contain failure and death within us, but not even the…
— Norman Mailer
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For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement…
— Edith Grossman
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Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
— Amy Lowell
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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Relief is a wonderful emotion, highly underrated. In fact, I prefer it to elation or joy. Relief lets the air out of the Tire of…
— Adriana Trigiani
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Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.
— Amy Lowell
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While we got hotter and thirstier as the heat beat down on us. The somebody would call in a voice full of elation
— Arthur Godfrey
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About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).
— Alexander Calder
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Tentatively I stood a great lump of wood on the chopping block and bought the axe down on it. It flew into two perfect halves.…
— Helen Garner
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It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is…
— Isocrates
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Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.
— Darren Hayes
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There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness... It will never end, for madness carves its…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that…
— Helen Fisher
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There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it
— Robert Doisneau
Who Wrote These Elation Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 52 Elation Quotes, led by these top contributors: