Rapture Quotes

146 quotes by 122 authors

That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! — Robert Browning
There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and… — Lord Byron
We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being… — Joseph Campbell
If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Let us look for secret things somewhere in the world on the blue shore of silence or where the storm has passed rampaging like a… — Pablo Neruda
When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our… — Leo Buscaglia
The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and… — Samuel Johnson
Rapture's self is three parts sorrow. — Amy Lowell
I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their… — Theodore Dreiser
God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually… — Rumi
When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really love, laugh or… — Dorothy Maclean
Were you to realize the forms minute and glorious, which invisibly play their parts in service around you, there could be no monotony - only… — Flower A. Newhouse
Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture. — Ovid
Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a… — Virginia Woolf
Defeat may serve as well as victory To shake the soul and let the glory out. When the great oak is straining in the wind,… — Edwin Markham
Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy. — Edwin Markham
The dizzy rapture of starving. The power of needing nothing. By force of will I make myself the impossible sprite who lives on air, on… — Kathryn Harrison
Throughout human history, countries rise and fall. But not America-we continue to rise and rise, like dough, until Jesus bakes us in the fiery Afterscape… — Stephen Colbert
Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond,… — Barbara Carrera

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