Quotes about Ecstasy

The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.

I'm paralyzed with happiness

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.

Full nakedness! All joyes are due to thee, As souls unbodied, bodies uncloth'd must be, To taste whole joyes.

Happiness is my drug of choice.

The pleasure which we most rarely experience gives us greatest delight.

There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.

The New Age operates on the epistemology of ecstasy.

word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart;

From heart-experience, and in humblest sense Of Modesty, that he, who in his youth A daily wanderer among woods and fields With living Nature hath been intimate, Not only in that raw unpractised time Is stirred to ecstasy, as others are, By glittering verse but further, doth receive, In measure only dealt out to himself, Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour