(29 quotes found)
“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
“To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.”
Walter H. Pater
“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
“It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.”
Logan Pearsall Smith
“Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.”
Walter Benjamin
“All pleasures and supreme ecstasy, O my Beloved, come to those who sew the Jewel of the Lord into their minds. They do not forget, even for an instant, the Support of the breath of life. They live by constantly meditating on Him, O Nanak.”
Sri Guru Granth Sahib
“Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.”
Norma Shearer
“Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.”
Emily Dickinson
“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
“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
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