Great saying by great authors Quote by Wystan Hugh Auden Download Open image “The hermit's carnal ecstasy.” — Wystan Hugh Auden ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great saying by great authors
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
“Ecstasy..."When you increase your ability to create ecstasy out of those things found in everyday life, all of your ecstatic sensual experiences grow deeper.” — Barabara Carrellas Copy Share Image
Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears. — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“Those who find ecstasy do so not by visiting the shrines of civilization but by trudging in the swamps of human destitution and misery.… — Alphonso Lingis Copy Share Image
By ecstasy I mean inner joyousness, and by inner joyousness I mean those inspirational fires which burn within the consciousness of great geniuses, fires… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
True ecstasy is stepping out of the bondage of the time-bound, space-bound world. We long to be free of fear and limitation. We hunger… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“let the practitioner imagine within himself the mystic union of the Ego and Absolute. When the resulting nectar of ecstasy is emitted, let him… — Austin Osman Spare Copy Share Image
If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me. — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
To pray is to pay attention to something or someone other than oneself. Whenever a manso concentrates his attentionon a landscape, a poem, a… — Wystan Hugh Auden Copy Share Image
Rosalind. Well, this is the forest of Arden. Touchstone. Ay, now am I in Arden, the more fool I. When I was at home,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The lumberers rarely trouble themselves to put out their fires, such is the dampness of the primitive forest; and this is one cause, no… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Maria. Nay, but say true, doesit work upon him? Sir Toby Belch. Like aqua vitae with a midwife. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
She who does not know she isa patient lies Within a tent of green, and sleeps without a sound — James Kirkup Copy Share Image
Popular culture entered my life as Shirley Temple, who was exactly my age and wrotea letter in the newspapers telling how her mother fixed… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Here the crow starves, here the patient stag Breeds for the rifle. — Thomas Stearns Eliot Copy Share Image
They are not dead! They havebut passed, Beyond the mists that blind us here, Into the new and larger life, Of that serener sphere. — John Luckey McCreery Copy Share Image
It was a chilly winter's night; And frost was glitt'ring on theground, And evening stars were twinkling bright; — William Barnes Copy Share Image
