Elation Quotes
52 Elation quotes by 49 unique authors
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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
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She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself.…
— Anne Sexton
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With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose…
— Aberjhani
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The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at…
— Derek Walcott
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An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is…
— Aimee Mullins
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I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix…
— Daphne Gottlieb
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To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.
— John Rhys-Davies
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Amazing is he who laughs, even though the fire is in front of him, and he feels elation, while death is awaiting...
— Ritu Ghatourey
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I don't know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions,…
— Frank Sinatra
Who Wrote These Elation Quotes
49 authors contributed a total of 52 Elation Quotes, led by these top contributors: