Elation Quotes
52 quotes by 49 authors
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It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
— Agnes Repplier
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Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood
— Chris Hadfield
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There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the…
— Neve Campbell
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I thought," Shad said slowly, "that she was offended if you referred to Blind Seer or Elation as her pets.""True," Derian assured him. "Absolutely the…
— Jane Lindskold
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Words of divine consciousness: moral exaltation; lasting feelings of elevation, elation, joy; a quickening of the moral sense, which strikes one as more important than…
— Yann Martel
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The stories of The End of Free Love mark a great beginning. They are seductive and migratory, tapped into our earliest sense of the world.…
— Noy Holland
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You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.
— Paloma Faith
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Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in liberty moderation is…
— Seneca the Younger
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Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the…
— Jess C Scott
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Misery, depression, elation all mine, refine confinement all my design.
— Henry Rollins
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There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
— Edward Hopper
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I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from…
— Brad Pitt
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Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each…
— Derek Walcott
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Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who…
— Michelangelo
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The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general…
— Ian Mcewan
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Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty…
— Wallace Stevens
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It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it.…
— Arundhati Roy
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There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the…
— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown…
— W. Somerset Maugham
Who Wrote These Elation Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 52 Elation Quotes, led by these top contributors: