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Quotes About Elation

I've always wanted to live really high up, and this is the only flat in the building with a balcony, so I feel quite smug up here.
~ Miquita Oliver
Joy is not like happiness, unhappiness. It is singular.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
Gaiety alone, as it were, is the hard cash of happiness; everything else is just a promissory note.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Joy is overwhelming fun - fun so big that it overflows your mind, heart, body - as if all of life and love were spilling into you and you were spilling out.
~ Bernie De Koven
Do you love him?"Deryn swallowed, then pointed at the screen. "He makes me feel like that. Like flying.
~ Scott Westerfeld, Goliath
You seem happy. I'm almost afraid of how happy I am.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.
~ Carl Sagan
Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So
~ Carl Sagan
Light is what gives joy to buildings.
~ Jaquelin T. Robertson
I am a joyful person.
~ Anthony Ray Hinton
When I found out I was in the top 13 I was freaking out and crying it was such a joyous moment for me.
~ Thia Megia
If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.
~ Christa McAuliffe
He'd made her feel what Barrons made me feel. Bigger than I could possibly be, larger than life, on fire with possibilities, ecstatic to be breathing, impatient for the next moment together. She'd been happy in those last months, so alive and happy.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
~ Karl Barth
Nor am I saying that English conversation codes do not allow men to express emotion. English males are allowed to express emotion. Well they are allowed to express some emotions. Three, to be precise: surprise, providing it is conveyed by expletives; anger, generally communicated in the same manner; and elation/triumph, which again involves shouting and swearing. It can thus sometimes be rather hard to tell exactly which of these three permitted emotions an Englishman is attempting to express.
~ Kate Fox
And all the best words together couldn't hold the happiness.
~ Katherine Hannigan
The feeling was elation.... I skip really big and fast. And the amazing thing is, it really cracks me up! I laugh out loud because it is so much fun! And I love to hold my arms out and flap them like a bird.... When I get to the bottom of the trail, I am drenched in sweat and riding high on endorphins from exercise plus laughter.
~ Gail
When you put a lot into something, the triumphs are so overwhelming with joy.
~ Garrett McNamara
That feeling is so intoxicating, walking off the court holding the Larry O'Brien trophy. So I just want to do that again.
~ Stephen Curry
Every season when I win a trophy I'm just so happy.
~ Kolo Toure
A terrible burden seemed to drain from him.
~ Steven Erikson
Her initial elation had given way to something unexpected: a heightened sadness. Even depression.
~ Mitch Albom
exceeded only by sex.
~ Mohsin Hamid
Happiness was bubbling up through me, a bright stream laughing.
~ Naomi Novik