Raptures Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

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
Love is a publicity stunt, and making love, after the first curious raptures, is only another petulant way to pass the time waiting for the… — Louise Brooks
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
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
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
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
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death? — Novalis
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse. — Edmund Waller
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
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
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse. — Charles Churchill
The fable runs that the gods mix our pains and pleasure in one cup, and thus mingle for us the adulterate immortality which we alone… — Amos Bronson Alcott
When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of… — Julia Kristeva
How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of… — Salman Rushdie
To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but… — Jonathan Edwards
Although I know that there is ultimately greater glory in suffering than in joy, it is joy that sustains us. It is in the glorious… — John Lars Zwerenz

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