(33 quotes found)
“To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
Walter H. Pater
“I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of beings, in identifying myself with the whole of nature”
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.”
Arnold Bennett
“Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.”
Orson Welles
“Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.”
Walter Benjamin
“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. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.”
Clive Bell
“My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.”
Carlos Santana
“For each ecstatic instant - We must an anguish pay - In keen and quivering ratio - To the ecstasy”
Emily Dickinson
“You name it, I took it. Cocaine, ecstasy, even heroin ? although I never injected... I had a job so I looked like I was holding everything together. But then the cracks started to show. I began letting people down and turning up late for work”
Davina McCall
