Best Rapture Sayings
146 Rapture quotes by 118 unique authors
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I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All…
— Joseph Campbell
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It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much…
— Paul Brunton
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All that you see was and is for your sake. The numerous books, uncanny markings, and beautiful thoughts are the ghosts of souls who preceded…
— Khalil
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The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
— Joseph Campbell
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Mystical bliss, joy and rapture are part of both yoga and vipassana. When the mind is concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, free from defects, pliant and…
— Amit Ray
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Mystical bliss, joy and rapture arises when you realize the inner Sun.
— Amit Ray
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The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to…
— Elizabeth Lesser
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Relationships are not about how two people can survive each other but about how the whole world becomes more capable of love, with all its…
— David Richo
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Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really is. We're not…
— Leo Buscaglia
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Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul…
— Helen Keller
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What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
— Novalis
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Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
— Bill Moyers
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
— Edmund Waller
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I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance…
— Emile M. Cioran
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Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs.
— Joan Rivers
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A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
— Gertrude Stein
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We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Why do all the clerks and navvies in the railway trains look so sad and tired, so very sad and tired? I will tell you.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint…
— Jane Austen
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Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.
— D. H. Lawrence
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What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to…
— Bertolt Brecht
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Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance.…
— Clive Bell
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I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of…
— Tom Perrotta
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To love all ages yield surrender; But to the young it's raptures bring A blessing bountiful and tender- As storms refresh the fields of spring.
— Alexander Pushkin
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For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed…
— Ernest Becker
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