Quotes, aphorisms and sentences on ecstasy, or on that psychic state that leads to a mystical elevation of the mind, sometimes perceived as external to the body, consequence of the momentary cessation of brain activity in the left hemisphere.
Quotes about ecstasy
- If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of agi becomes the supreme well-being: he must abandon it. (Jean Cocteau)
- Write me how many notes in the ecstasy of the new robin among the astonished branches, how many little steps the turtle does, how many bowls of dew the bee drinks. (Emily Dickinson)
- The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven constitutes an ecstasy that could arouse the envy of the gods. (Elbert Hubbard)
- Still a child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. (Charles Baudelaire)
- Beauty is ecstasy; it is as simple as the desire for food. Nothing more can be said, it is like the scent of a rose: you can only smell it. (William Somerset Maugham)
- Fantasy is a force of nature. Isn't this enough to fill a man with ecstasy? Fantasy, fantasy, fantasy. (Saul Bellow)
- Ecstasy: common life; loyalty, true passion. (Milan Kundera)
- The soul feeds on ecstasy like the cicada with dew. (Anatole France)
- Understanding is a kind of ecstasy. (Carl Sagan)
- You don't need to leave the house. Stay at your table and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't even wait, stay in perfect silence and solitude. The world will offer you to be exposed, it cannot do without it, in ecstasy it will twist in front of you. (Franz Kafka)
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- True love despairs or goes into ecstasy for a lost glove or for a handkerchief found, and needs eternity for its devotion and its hopes. It is made up of the infinitely large and the infinitely small. (Victor Hugo)
- Ecstasy is not really part of the scene that we can create on celluloid. (Orson Welles)
- What symphonies, what ecstasy in power for an artist in front of the wonderful range of our senses. (Eugène Cloutier)
- A few more generations and rice, reserved for the initiated, will be as impractical as ecstasy. (Emile Michel Cioran)
- Beauty is ecstasy; it is as simple as the desire for food. Nothing more can be said, it is like the scent of a rose: you can only smell it. (William Somerset Maugham)
Aphorisms on ecstasy
- Melancholy is just as seductive as ecstasy. (Mason Cooley)
- Those who have never experienced the ecstasy of betrayal know nothing of the ecstasy. (Jean Genet)
- There is an ecstasy that characterizes the culmination of life and beyond which life cannot rise. And the paradox of living is such that this ecstasy comes when you are supremely alive and comes as a total oblivion of being alive. This ecstasy, this forgetting to live, is blown away by the artist with a flash of passion; he comes during the pitched battle to the mad war soldier when he refuses the truce. (Jack London)
- True love despairs or goes into ecstasy for a lost glove or for a handkerchief found, and needs eternity for its devotion and its hopes. It is made up of the infinitely large and the infinitely small. (Victor Hugo)
- Ecstasy is a language that man has completely forgotten. He was forced to forget it, he was pushed to forget it. Society is against ecstasy and so is civilization. (Osho)
- There is a joy in unexplored woods, there is an ecstasy on the lonely beach, there is life where no one comes close to the deep sea and there is music in its roar. I do not love man less, but Nature more. (George Byron)
- Who at night, sleeping, dreams, knows a kind of happiness unknown to the waking world: a placid ecstasy and a rest of the heart that are like honey on the tongue. (Karen Blixen)
- My goal in life is to give the world what I was lucky enough to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance. (Michael Jackson)
- What a miserable feeling! The ecstasy itself is, perhaps, nothing more. (Emil Cioran)
- Ecstasy was on your lips, nectar of the gods was your gift.All in the kiss of a girl. (Edgar Wallace)
- For the spirit, being at work means being in ecstasy. (Victor Hugo)
- There is nothing more touching than the ecstatic gaze of a child in front of a flower except, perhaps, to see an adult do the same. (Yvon Deveault)
- Those who have ecstasies, visions, those who mistake dreams for reality are enthusiastic. Anyone who claims their madness with murder is a fanatic. (Voltaire)
- Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in drunkenness, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life chains me, I run away, one way or another. No wall can block me. (Anaïs Nin)
- Man desires eternity but can only have the surrogate: the moment of ecstasy. (Milan Kundera)
Phrases about ecstasy
- There is an ecstasy that marks the culmination of life, and beyond which life cannot go. And the paradox of existence is that this ecstasy comes when you are most alive and consists in the most complete forgetfulness of being alive. (Jack London)
- No pleasure, no sin, no ecstasy is more intense than air conditioning. (Jason Lee)
- What a miserable feeling! The ecstasy itself is, perhaps, nothing more. (Emile Michel Cioran)
- My job is to give people a spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they reach the peak of spirituality, then I will have done my job. I think I do it in a decent and honest way. (Carlos Santana)
- Or busy nights! If I were next to you, these hectic nights would be our ecstasy. (Emily Dickinson)
- We are no longer in the drama of alienation, but we are in the ecstasy of communication. (Jean Baudrillard)
- For an instant of ecstasy we pay in anguish an exact and anxious measure proportionate to the ecstasy. For a beloved hour, bitter compensation for years, pennies torn with pain, caskets full of tears. (Emily Dickinson)
- Art and religion are, after all, two ways through which men escape from concrete reality in the desire for ecstasy. (Arthur Clive Heward Bell)
- Take everything away from me, but leave me Ecstasy and I will be richer then, than all my fellow men. (Emily Dickinson)
- The ecstasy could not be eternal, otherwise it would kill. (Eleanor Farjeon)
- The journey is renewal, irresponsibility, happy ecstasy, meeting with the nebulous images of youth that have now vanished. (Sandor Marai)
- Fantasy is a force of nature. Isn't this enough to fill a man with ecstasy? Fantasy, fantasy, fantasy. (Saul Bellow)
- Happiness is the perpetual ecstasy of being deceived properly. (Jonathan Swift)
- The past is a curious creature, and looking at it in the face you can land in ecstasy or despair. (Emily Dickinson)
- Great art is made to arouse, create ecstasy. The finer the quality of this ecstasy, the finer the art. Only the minor art is satisfied with the pleasant. (Ezra Pound)
- Those who have ecstasies, visions, those who mistake dreams for reality are enthusiastic. Anyone who claims their madness with murder is a fanatic. (Voltaire)
