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Quotes About Ecstasy

Being a woman is hard work. Not without joy and even ecstasy, but still relentless, unending work. Becoming an old female may require only being born with certain genitalia, inheriting long-living genes and the fortune not to be run over by an out-of-control truck, but to become and remain a woman command the existence and employment of genius.
~ Maya Angelou
feels so damn good?
~ Melissa Good
É a hora da embriaguez! Para não serdes os martirizados escravos do Tempo, embriagai-vos sem tréguas! De vinho, de poesia ou de virtude, como achardes melhor.
~ Baudelaire Charles Pierre
True love is a different story. When it happens, individuals usually feel in touch with each other's core identity. Embarking on such a relationship is frightening precisely because we feel there is no place to hide. We are known. All the ecstasy that we feel emerges as this love nurtures us and challenges us to grow and transform.
~ bell hooks
Writing is my passion. Words are the way to know ecstasy. Without them life is barren.
~ bell hooks
spirits bring contentment for a time carry us closer to the sacred moving through bitterness our yearning to hold on to moments of ecstasy where we imagine we hear clearly destiny calling
~ bell hooks
Despair is not solid. Neither is joy. They alternate, and contain each other. There is no joy that is not also touched by sorrow, no grief that is not rendered sharper by the memory of bliss. If things move forward in one direction and not another, they do so by rolling there, passing through the same tight orbit, touching here an ecstasy, there another shattering loss.
~ Ben Ehrenreich
Calix meus inebrians.
~ Bernard Cornwell
Love's madness, swinging from ecstasy to despair in one wild second.
~ Bernard Cornwell
But how is this to be accomplished? Cut away everything. The experience of ecstasy (standing outside one's own body) happened frequently to Plotinus: Many
~ Bertrand Russell
the page. It was an ecstasy to write without hesitation, to write everything hidden inside of me, to write with the sort of audacity I wouldn't have found in person.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
Maenad: A female devotee of Dionysus. In many ways, the Maenads served as the prototype of the wild, free, ecstatic female witch. Eventually they too would come to be hysterically persecuted and outlawed. Among the theories of historical witchcraft is that it is a surviving vestige of Dionysian spirituality. See CREATIVE ARTS: Dance: Maenad Dances; DIVINE WITCH: Dionysus;.
~ Judika Illes
No se esconda cuando algo le produzca placer.
~ Julia Navarro
Ce n'était pas un baiser, c'était… le paradis.
~ Julia Quinn
Liv wanted to protest further but she was rapidly losing all power of speech, mainly because Baird was licking and sucking her neck again, his hot tongue tracing a ticklish trail down over her collarbones and sternum. He stopped long enough to rub his rough cheeks over her sensitive nipples, making her jump and gasp, and then trailed lower to nibble and kiss her trembling abdomen. Finally
~ Evangeline Anderson
So that the vines burst from my fingers And the bees weighted with pollen Move heavily in the vine-shoots: chirr---chirr---chir-rikk---a purring sound, And the birds sleepily in the branches. ZAGREUS! IO ZAGREUS!
~ Ezra Pound
her legs around his waist. "Do it." He closed his eyes, losing himself in elation as he entered another universe. Her flesh around him—warm
~ Faye Kellerman
Verde que te quiero verde.
~ Federico Garcia Lorca
C'è in tutti noi un qualcosa che somiglia alla letizia.
~ Ferdinando Camon
La lujuria está bien: el sexo es bueno, despeja la cabeza y alegra el corazón.
~ Fernando Vallejo
There was only joy, awe, and amazement.
~ Bonnie L. Greenwell
Urging the need for community upon American religionists is a vain enterprise; the experiential encounter with Jesus or God is too overwhelming for memories of community to abide, and the believer returns from the abyss of ecstasy with the self enhanced and otherness devalued.
~ Harold Bloom
Never in history has the human brain been asked to track so many data points. Everywhere, people rely on their cell phones, e-mail, and digital assistants in the race to gather and transmit data, plans, and ideas faster and faster. One could argue that the chief value of the modern era is speed, which the novelist Milan Kundera described as "the form of ecstasy that technology has bestowed upon modern man.
~ Harvard Business School Press
You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed, like an oyster in its shell, content with the sluggish ecstasy of inaction.
~ Hawthorne, Nathaniel