Ecstasy Quotes
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The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy. (Quote by - Clive Bell)
There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable. (Quote by - William Shatner)
I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock. (Quote by - Hedy Lamarr)
I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain. (Quote by - Neil Tennant)
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. (Quote by - Clive Bell)
I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now. (Quote by - Wavy Gravy)
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. (Quote by - W. Somerset Maugham)
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. (Quote by - Walter Pater)
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us. (Quote by - Walter Pater)
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. (Quote by - Simone Weil)
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. (Quote by - Charles Baudelaire)
For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. (Quote by - Jack London)
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. (Quote by - Jean Genet)
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. (Quote by - Georges Bataille)
An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. (Quote by - Walter Benjamin)
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed. (Quote by - Jiddu Krishnamurti)
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. (Quote by - Honore De Balzac)
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. (Quote by - Anais Nin)
Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust. (Quote by - Kenneth Rexroth)
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something. (Quote by - Rita Dove)
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. (Quote by - John Updike)
The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet! (Quote by - Robert Browning)
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see. (Quote by - Joy Page)
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. (Quote by - Carlos Santana)
Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out. (Quote by - Paul Simon)
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in. (Quote by - Logan P. Smith)
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. (Quote by - Orson Welles)
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy. (Quote by - Norma Shearer)
It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy. (Quote by - Mark Hoppus)
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. (Quote by - Jean Cocteau)
And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another. (Quote by - Hart Crane)
Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own. (Quote by - Stan Kenton)
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. (Quote by - Ivan Turgenev)
