Quotes About Ecstasy

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

For the poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses, and the mind is no longer in him: when he has not attained to this state, he is powerless and is unable to utter his oracles.

In fact we receive the greatest benefits through frenzy.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody every died from pleasure.

Transform enjoying into an even and objectless ecstasy; let all thyself be bliss. This is thy goal.

Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.

Forgetfulness of the infinite is misery. Forgetfulness of the trivial is ecstasy.

Any true ecstast is a sign you are going in the right direction...don't let any prude tell you otherwise

Alors, dans l'obscurité j'ai pleuré de bonheur.

Zweig fue toda su vida un apasionado coleccionista. Le gustaba poseer y contemplar primeras ediciones de obras de Goethe o Schiller, partituras escritas por Mozart o Beethoven. Las contemplaba sabiendo que ahí mismo, delante de él, en aquellos papeles, estaba el sufrimiento y el gozo, el tormento y el éxtasis del acto grande.

Como animales, calientes y ávidos, caían uno sobre otro cuando se encontrban en un pasillo oscuro, detrás de una puerta, en un rincón, entre dos minutos robados; la mano quería sentir a la mano, el labio al labio, la sangre inquieta sentir a su hermana, todo buscaba febrilmente a todo, cada nervio ardía por gozar la sensualidad de un pie, de una mano, de un vestido, de cualquier parte viva de sus cuerpos anhelantes.

there must be a perpetual state of tension between torment and ecstasy if man is to be projected into the infinite.

The daemon is the incorporation of that tormenting leaven which impels our being (otherwise quiet and almost inert) towards danger, immoderation, ecstasy, renunciation and even self-destruction.

In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

In all perception of the truth there is a divine ecstasy, an inexpressible delirium of joy, as when a youth embraces his betrothed virgin.

Oh, my beauty! Oh, my love. Soon your loins shall live--and throb to my pounding dork! Ah! Ah!

One of the keystones of romantic love - and also of the ecstatic religion practiced by mystics - is the powerful desire to become one with the beloved.

I was Amazement--I was Desire--I was Ecstasy and Rapture and the slightest bit of Greed.

I know no joy as great as a moment of rushing into a new love, no ecstasy like that of a new love.

I'm gonna make love to you like fifteen men.

O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!

Love fundamentally is the most powerful ecstasy of consciousness, and even if a person goes blind, there is no question when you are in love.

This is not just about talking or teaching a practice - this is about releasing an explosive energy of ecstasy.

I'm from Jersey, so I have a love of T.G.I. Friday's and chain restaurants in general. When you go to a Friday's, it seems like everyone's on ecstasy and way too happy anyway.