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Quotes About Ecstasy

Taking you is like losing myself," he groaned roughly. "I feel you clasping my dick, Crista, but I feel you pouring into my soul.
~ Lora Leigh
Oh yeah. Baby, so good. He had to release her nipple, had to hold her face in his hands, stare into her eyes. So damned tight. Sweet. Ride me, sweetheart. Ride me out of hell.
~ Lora Leigh - Wild Card
In a life where there is only the bearable and the unbearable, a sigh of relief is an ecstasy.
~ Lorrie Moore
Nothing makes Penstemon happier than handing a favorite book to someone who wants to read it. I'm the same. I suppose you could say this delights us although 'delight' is a word I rarely use. Delight seems insubstantial; happiness feels more grounded; ecstasy is what I shoot for; satisfaction is hardest to attain.
~ Louise Erdrich
Delight seems insubstantial; happiness feels more grounded; ecstasy is what I shoot for; satisfaction is hardest to attain.
~ Louise Erdrich
en el momento agudo de la pasión eres inmortal.
~ Rosa Montero
euphoria he felt after
~ Ruth Rendell
sex wasn't just about two people getting naked and tangled up together. A lot of other things were involved, things that make you feel so good you forget who you are, and things that feel so creepy you literally get goose bumps, and things you hold so dear you're afraid to go to sleep, and things that make you so happy you want to bounce up and down—layer after layer of things like that, all mixed up into a sticky mess with the blood and sweat and love juice.
~ Ry? Murakami
Nothing that a Christian, a Muslim, and a Hindu can experience—self-transcending love, ecstasy, bliss, inner light—constitutes evidence in support of their traditional beliefs, because their beliefs are logically incompatible with one another. A deeper principle must be at work.
~ Sam Harris
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.
~ Cyril Connolly
All the pious ideas that had been so long forgotten, returned; he recollected the prayers his mother had taught him, and discovered a new meaning in every word; for in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven! He prayed, and prayed aloud, no longer terrified at the sound of his own voice, for he fell into a sort of ecstasy.
~ Alexandre Dumas
It's pure vanity to presume that love exists only on our terms. A red lead may be the universe for the tortoise beetle or the ladybird. A single touch the ecstasy of a lifetime. (180)
~ Alice Hoffman
Spanish moss draggled bloody to the ground; amen corners creaked with grief; and the thrill of being able, once again, to endure unendurable loss produced so profound an ecstasy in mourners that they strutted, without noticing their feet, along the thin backs of benches: their piercing shouts of anguish and joy never interrupted by an inglorious fall.
~ Alice Walker
The typewriter is holy the poem is holy the voice is holy the hearers are holy the ecstacy is holy!
~ Allen Ginsberg
who let themselves be fucked in the ass by saintly motorcyclists, and screamed with joy, ...
~ Allen Ginsberg
The kindly search for growth, the gracious desire to exist of the flowers, my near ecstasy at existing among them The privilege to witness my existence—you too must seek the sun
~ Allen Ginsberg
At about this time something occurred which caused my cup of joy, already full, to overflow on all sides, a circular cataract of bliss.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Ecstasy? Like the drug?" Michelle asked. "Wow. Trippy. They were into that back then?" "No. Not like the drug. Like fun. She's a symbol of never-ending fun.
~ Joe Hill
This wasn't romance. This was a hardcore Master out and out driving her to the upper level of madness, where her body was going to come completely to pieces before he was done. Cruel, but she craved his brand of cruelty.
~ Joey W. Hill
When I've come inside you, lain on you, felt you tremble, felt that silence between us that has everything…you don't think God is there?
~ Joey W. Hill
If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's.
~ Johan Huizinga
I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience
~ Shakti Gawain
Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life.
~ Curt Sachs
Your life is pure joy, pure ecstasy, when you live in humility.
~ Frederick Lenz