Quotes About Ecstasy

But Freud, perhaps because he himself denies ever having had such an experience, treats it as illusory; whilst those who describe ecstatic feelings of unity usually portray them as more intensely real than any other feelings which they can recall.

Admittedly or not, conscious or unconscious, the poetic state, a transcendent experience of life, is what the public is fundamentally seeking through love, crime, drugs, war, or insurrection.

There are basically two types of people who remain or seem mostly happy or ecstatic. One is wicked or unempathetic person who does not think anything truly good for others and Other is stupid or lunatic who can not think as what is actually good for oneself.

Variety is the soul of pleasure.

Happiness flooded through him in warm tides.

The makers of literature are those who have seen and felt the miraculous interestingness of the universe. If you have formed...literary taste...your life will be one long ecstasy of denying that the world is a dull place.

You put something you like on really loud, and you feel godlike.

The skin of the boy's neck tasted foul, bitter with ingrained filth. The hot pulse of blood laced the foulness, drawing the vampire on until the skin broke and fluid burst onto his tongue. Crystal sweetness. A ruby light that out-dazzled the battle flares, the two-edged ecstasy of feeding: a compulsion so strong that it almost sickened. Wrong to take pleasure in this death, impossible not to... The vampire closed his eyes in bliss as he drank, but the bitter taste remained.

That which intoxicates, the sensually ecstatic, the sudden surprise, the urge to be profoundly stirred at any price -- dreadful tendencies!

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

These four effects of love are: unity, mutual indwelling, ecstasy, and zeal.

a love without satiety an ecstasy without an end, a surrender to the beloved— God—without ever falling back on egotistic loneliness. Marriage and celibacy are not contraries

I've been wanting to do this all night. Give me those luscious—" He ripped the front of her bodice open, freed her breasts, and buried his face between them. "Mmmm. God, I could devour you," he moaned as his hot, wet mouth captured her nipple. Bel gasped then let out a low, breathless laugh of delirious pleasure.

Their bodies glided together in trembling harmony. Heated skin, rhythmic panting, slamming heartbeats. They made love as if their lives depended on it. Oh, God-Rohan! Yes, Kate, he whispered raggedly in smitten agreement. Oh... my... Surrender to me, he breathed against her lips.

If 'ecstasy' means to stand outside ourselves, then what better ambition can there be as we wait in the wings of the Royal Albert Hall: to leave self-obsession behind and take the audience on a journey across the high wire of Beethoven or the flying trapeze of Liszt.

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

People forget themselves in my music. It's amazing.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Love is a madman, working his wild schemes, tearing off his clothes, running through the mountains....

Hay amores buenos como el pan, nutrientes, esperanzadores, y hay amores de hambre y de veneno. Hay amores que abren una ventana sobre el paraíso, de los que soportamos los tormentos por los éxtasis en los que derivan, y amores que nos entretienen con el éxtasis mientras secretamente nos arrastran al infierno.

becomes pleasant, we call this peace. If it becomes very pleasant, we call this joy. If your emotions become pleasant, we call this love. If they become very pleasant, we call this compassion. If your life energies become pleasant, we call this bliss. If they become very pleasant, we call this ecstasy. This is all that you are seeking: pleasantness within and without

Mysticism on this planet evolved only in those places where people learned the technology of being ecstatic by their own nature. This is because only when you are blissful will you be in the highest state of receptivity, and truly willing to explore all aspects of life. Otherwise, you would not dare, because if keeping yourself pleasant is a big challenge, you can't take on other challenges.

spirituality means putting your life on fast forward. You may suffer much more because everything happens at a fast pace. What you would have stretched for ten years happens, let us say, in one month. So the intensity of the suffering that you go through is extremely acute. There may be moments of ecstasy and joy, but there is so much suffering also happening rapidly within you.