Elation Quotes

52 quotes by 49 authors

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
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
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
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. — Doug Larson
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
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
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
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
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation. — Amy Lowell
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
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
Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation. — Amy Lowell
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
About my method of work: first itâ€™s the state of mindâ€”Elation (joy). — Alexander Calder
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
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
Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb. — Darren Hayes
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
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
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

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