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Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy. -- Mason Cooley
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy. -- Norma Shearer
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. -- Emily Dickinson
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in. -- Logan Pearsall Smith
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience. -- John Updike
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity. -- Ivan Turgenev
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy. -- Clive Bell
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. -- Hedy Lamarr
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. -- Joy Page
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. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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 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. -- Franz Kafka
Ecstasy hates company. -- Robert Charles Wilson
The Doctrine is the Ecstasy -- J.T.Abraham
Ecstasy cannot be constant, or it would kill. -- Eleanor Farjeon
Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time. -- Emile M. Cioran
Ecstasy is a glimpse of the infinite; horror is full disclosure. -- Kirk J. Schneider
You will find inner ecstasy when you can be reckless in love. -- Deepak Chopra
Ecstasy is the energy of spirit. When life flows, ecstasy is natural. -- Deepak Chopra
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. -- Orson Welles
Ecstasy is a drug so powerful, it makes white people think they can dance. -- Lenny Henry
I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed. -- Sharon Shinn
I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed." -- Sharon Shinn
Ecstasy is a glass full of tea and a piece of sugar in the mouth. -- Alexander Pushkin
I experimented with weed, Ecstasy, mushrooms and mescaline for about a year and a half. -- Melissa Joan Hart
Ecstasy, I think, is a soul's response to the waves holiness makes as it nears. -- Annie Dillard
Ecstasy is the accurate term for the intensity of consciousness that occurs in the creative act. -- Rollo May
Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-. -- Emily Dickinson
What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again. -- Carl Sandburg
He who does not arrive at the Intuition of these Truths by means of Ecstasy knows only the name of Inspiration. -- Al-Ghazali
Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes. -- Terence McKenna
Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live. -- William Butler Yeats
Ecstasy carries you completely outside your ego boundaries. In ecstasy you know yourself as cosmic ego, unbounded in time and space. -- Deepak Chopra
Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor. -- Tanith Lee
Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Ecstasy..."When you increase your ability to create ecstasy out of those things found in everyday life, all of your ecstatic sensual experiences grow deeper." -- Barabara Carrellas
Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is - and still not caring. -- Tom Robbins
Ecstasy is what everyone craves - not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. That enravishment doesn't give meaning to life, and yet without it life seems meaningless. -- Diane Ackerman
The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil. -- Emily Dickinson
Hear this if you can: If you want to reach him You have to go beyond yourself And when you finally arrive at the land of absence Be silent Don't say a thing Ecstasy, not words, is the language spoken there -- Rumi
Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. -- Eric Liu
Who is that is dreaming all of this? Ecstasy, pure ecstasy, joy beyond understanding, bliss beyond the dry dullness of the mind's philosophical ranging, light beyond any light in this world - The substance and the essence of all existence is this light, the transcendental light. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The Spirit bears witness. Ecstasy and enlightenment, inspiration and intuition are not necessary. Happy is the man who is worthy of these; but woe unto us if we wait for such experiences; woe unto us if we do not perceive that these things are of secondary importance. -- Karl Barth
When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of chaos: Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love Which alone, as we know certainly, restores Fragmentation into true being. Ecstasy of Chaos -- Robert Graves
I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now. -- Wavy Gravy
Young kids are taking Viagra, ecstasy. They even want instant sex. -- Tim Reid
It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy. -- Mark Hoppus
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. -- Walter Benjamin
Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. -- Jean Genet
Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust. -- Kenneth Rexroth
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. -- Walter Pater
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods. -- Elbert Hubbard
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life. -- Charles Baudelaire
Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy. -- Barry Hannah
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something -- Rita Dove
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. -- William Shatner
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy. -- Abraham Maslow
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. -- Georges Bataille
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! -- Robert Browning
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. -- Walter Pater
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. -- Paul Simon
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. -- Anais Nin
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. -- W. Somerset Maugham
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. -- Jack London
The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually. -- Martin Seligman
Even spiritually advanced people are often confused. They feel an inner ecstasy which comes from the vital world, and they think this is the real delight. But it is not so. Real delight comes from the highest world to the soul, and from the soul it saturates the whole being. -- Sri Chinmoy
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. -- Hart Crane
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. -- Franz Kafka
Nature best teaches how to pray, and how to reverence all the gifts the Almighty has given us. She is like a vast outspread handkerchief, embroidered with God's eternal name, on which we may dry alike our tears of sorrow and of joy; she turns weeping into ecstasy, and fills our hearts with speechless, quiet reverence and resignation. -- Robert Schumann
What I absolutely want is to suggest that before it's anything else, redemption is God mending the bicycle of our souls; God bringing out the puncture repair kit, re-inflating the tires, taking off the rust, making us roadworthy once more. Not so that we can take flight into ecstasy, but so that we can do the next needful mile of our lives. -- Francis Spufford
Love is ecstasy of life -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Art is the communication of ecstasy. -- P.D. Ouspensky
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy -- Carl Sagan
Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. -- Criss Jami
Every dance is and gives ecstasy. -- Curt Sachs
Love is the ecstasy of life. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
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There is ecstasy in paying attention. -- Anne Lamott
This is the very ecstasy of love. -- William Shakespeare
Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy. -- William Cowper
The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral. -- George Steiner
You are a fantastic scheme of captivating ecstasy. -- Delano Johnson
People look ridiculous when they?re in ecstasy.... -- David Byrne
Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Repetition not for monotony but the ecstasy it induces. -- Martha Graham
A smile is the expression of ecstasy of life. -- Debasish Mridha
It's ecstasy when you're laying down next to me. -- Barry White
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. -- Honore de Balzac
The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy. -- Constantin Stanislavski
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. -- Simone Weil
She switched from ecstasy to embarrassment at about Mach five. -- Kevin Hearne
One man's piss-soaked sadomasochistic orgy is another man's poetic ecstasy. -- Dan Savage
'Born This Way' is shaping up to be creative ecstasy. -- Laurieann Gibson
Born This Way' is shaping up to be creative ecstasy. -- Laurieann Gibson
Life is an ecstasy. Life is sweet as nitrous oxide. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. -- W. Somerset Maugham
The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long. -- Walt Whitman
Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy. -- Margery Allingham
There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get. -- Bette Davis
He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering. -- Khalil Gibran
Beauty of music enlightens the soul and fills it with ecstasy. -- Debasish Mridha
I write to fill my mind with the ecstasy of life. -- Debasish Mridha
He who seeks ecstasy in love should not complain of suffering. -- Khalil Gibran
Only the united beat of sex and heart together can create ecstasy. -- Anais Nin
I am a moment illuminating eternity....I am affirmation...I am ecstasy. -- Alexander Scriabin
What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief. -- Sarah Kane
In every death is a celebration; in every ecstasy, one little death. -- Norman Mailer
The giving and receiving of pleasure is a need and an ecstasy. -- Khalil Gibran
Your life is pure joy, pure ecstasy, when you live in humility. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The man in ecstasy and the man drowning: both raise their arms. -- Franz Kafka
Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes. -- Philip Larkin
Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction. -- Teresa of Avila
Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy, -- Jim Jarmusch
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. -- James Broughton
such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour -- Richard Paul Evans
Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy. -- Terence McKenna
And for a breath of ecstasy / Give all you have been, or could be. -- Sara Teasdale
One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life. -- Joel Salatin
I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be. -- Dr. Dre

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