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Quotes About Ecstasy

In fact, every kind of pleasantness that we experience—whether peace or joy or ecstasy—is a kind of chemistry. The yogic system has always known this.
~ Sadhguru
Sexual ecstasy is like death. It is one of the secrets of nature's wisdom.
~ Marcus Aurelius
On the other hand, he was also enjoying the ecstasy of an idea, not daring just yet to envision its complications, dangers, and vicious absurdities. For now, the idea was enough. It was indestructible. Transforming it into reality, well, that was something else altogether. For now, though, let's let him enjoy it.
~ Marcus Zusak
You believed you could transcend the body as you aged, she tells herself. You believed you could rise above it, to a serene, nonphysical realm. But it's only through ecstasy you can do that, and ecstasy is achieved through the body itself. Without the bone and sinew of wings, no flight. Without that ecstasy you can only be dragged further down by the body, into its machinery. Its rusting, creaking, vengeful, brute machinery.
~ Margaret Atwood
(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
The most fortunate are those who 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 H. Maslow
I'm called the Godfather [of Ecstacy] because I published for the first time information about its effects in man. I feel content with the title. MDMA is a beautiful drug.
~ Alexander Shulgin
in the midst of the tumult, part ecstasy and part panic, into which all first-time mothers are thrown by sleep deprivation and headlong identity realignment.
~ Anne Fadiman
There is ecstasy in paying attention... Anyone who wants to can be surprised by the beauty or pain of the natural world, of the human mind and heart, and can try to capture just that - the details, the nuance, what is. If you start to look around, you will start to see.
~ Anne Lamott
And we are this, this only, this ecstasy that flesh can give to flesh.
~ Anne Rice
My Master's face was rapt and beautiful, a white flame against the wavering golden light of countless candles. He stood over me.
~ Anne Rice
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of pain
~ Anne Rice
Ah, the nipples of men, so tender; such a key to torment and ecstacy; how he writhed as she twisted then ever so gently, her tongue daring in and out of his mouth.
~ Anne Rice
He was a man who fucked in silence. And when he climaxed, long, hard, endlessly, inside her tight body, he heard his voice in the darkness. Calling her name.
~ Anne Stuart
He slid his arm under her waist, hauled her up, and entered her that way, sliding in deep, so deep, and her guttural cry was a heartbreaking pleasure. He couldn't stop. She wouldn't let him. She twisted her head around and kissed him, and he wanted to keep on and on, to fill her mouth, her body, her soul with him. To have her take everything and then want more.
~ Anne Stuart
He slid his hands under her butt and she could feel him pressing against her, hot and hard and sleek. And then he thrust inside, deep, fast, burying himself inside her, breaking past whatever trace of innocence she still had remaining.
~ Anne Stuart
He touched her, and she came again at his touch, her mouth pulling at him. He was beyond gentleness. He shoved her back against the blanket of clothes and moved between her legs. He went in hard, fast, deep, only barely able to control himself. She wrapped her legs around his, and he reached down and pulled them higher, up around his hips, so that he was deeper still, and she was tight, clasping, milking him with the power of her climax, which was almost sweetly painful.
~ Anne Stuart
Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?
~ Sergei Dovlatov
Like madness is the glory of this life.
~ Shakespeare
Although Madeleine's happiness was palatable, Jack's was even more
~ Shana Abé
Alone at last. Oh, the pleasure of the pain. (Zarek) You really do suffer from insanity, don't you? (Thanatos) Hardly. I have to say I enjoy every minute of it. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Are you okay? (Simone) No, I'm in ecstasy. I blew straight past okay the minute you touched me. (Xypher)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ecstasy is the energy of spirit. When life flows, ecstasy is natural.
~ Deepak Chopra
Nothing more do I ask than to share with you the ecstasy and sacrament of my life.
~ Emily Dickinson