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146 Rapture quotes by 118 unique authors

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land! Whose heart hath ne'er… — Walter Scott
Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's… — Paul Valery
Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of… — Gautama Buddha
Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and… — Dmitri Shostakovich
Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture. — Joseph Addison
Jesus, could you please rapture the charismaniac lady who brings her tambourine to church? — Mark Driscoll
Rapture is the gateway to nirvana. — Sharon Salzberg
Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture:… — Salvador Dali
Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
The rapture will not be secret but open and manifest. Its purpose will not be to whisk the elect away from the earth for a… — R C Sproul
I profoundly admire Aldous Huxley, both for his philosophy and uncompromising sincerity. But I disagree with his advocacy of 'the chemical opening of doors into… — Arthur Koestler
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore. — James F. Cooper
I wished that I were the owner of every southern slave, that I might cast off the shackles from their limbs, and witness the rapture… — Thaddeus Stevens
Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain. — Emma Lazarus
The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. Â… — Aleister Crowley
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door). — William Maxwell
Dream that the more you struggle, the more you prove the love that you bear your God, and the more you will rejoice one day… — Teresa of Avila
The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God. — Rumi
Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made miracle of bread? — Louis Untermeyer
We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared.… — Anthony Kiedis
If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture… — Joseph Addison
I have quitted all forms of devotion and set prayers but those to which my state obliges me. And I make it my business only… — Brother Lawrence
I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more… — David Zindell
The holy grail is right here in this gem of a book. Tosha Silver’s wisdom goes down as easy as a mint milkshake and leaves… — Lissa Rankin
I inhabited a territory of loneliness which resembles the place where the dying spend their time before death, and from where those who do return,… — Janet Frame

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