Quotes About Ecstasy

Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

you look out at the clear blue sky and for an instant you see that you are everything. You want to say something, but none of the words you have will stick at all; nothing will come except for a wide, wide smile that crosses all of space at time---and the moment is utterly forgotten

In the four hundred years since the last devouring soul appeared; the last man to know the meaning of ecstasy, there has been a constant and steady decline of man in art, in thought, in action. The world is pooped out: there isn't a dry fart left.

What we learn, of value, we get indirectly, largely unconsciously. It is too often stressed, in my opinion, that we learn through sorrow and suffering. I do not deny this to be true, but I hold that we also learn, and perhaps more lastingly, through moments of joy, of bliss, of ecstasy. Struggle has its importance, but we tend to overrate it. Harmony, serenity, bliss do not come from struggle but from surrender.

I had moment of ecstasy and I sang with burning sparks. I sang of the Equator, her red-feathered legs and the islands dropping out of sight. But nobody heard.

You see, people read to be amused, to pass the time, I never read to be instructed; I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic. I'm always looking for the author who can take me out of myself.

I was a ripe prey for the alligator of ecstasy.  

Do anything but let it produce joy. Do anything but let it yield ecstasy.

A veces la atmósfera es tan eléctrica, que el alma se siente llamada a salir de su cuerpo y enloquece.

Why do the skeletons dance so ecstatically, I wonder. Is it the fall of the world? Is it the dance of death which has been so often heralded? To see millions of skeletons dancing in the snow while the city founders is an awesome sight.

I was very into tribal techno and used to go and really lose myself in great dance music.

Only those who can see, feel, and use the power of love, can enjoy the beauty and ecstasy of life.

When the moon kisses the stas in the silence with her lights of love, my heart dances with ecstasy and beauty of life.

I will come during the spring with blooms of mystic ecstasy.I will vanish in the song of autumn with the falling colors and beauty.

Be a burst of joy.

It was the kind of kiss that made me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.

The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.

Mais moi, je te le jure, en entendant ta voix, j'éprouve une félicité si profonde, si étrange, que les baisers les plus ardents ne pourraient la remplacer.

È™i Baudelaire scrie: "Trebuie s? fim veÈ™nic beÈ›i... de vin, de poezie sau de virtuÈ›i pe placul nostru..." Lirismul e o stare de beÈ›ie, È™i omul se îmbat? pentru a se contopi mai uÈ™or cu universul.

For Franz music was the art that came closest to Dionysian beauty in the sense of intoxication.

I'm in love with the whole world.

These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps