Quotes About Elevation

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

In theatre, after the curtain rises, it's all about me. I can either elevate myself with my performance or be mediocre.

It's not about me, it's about you, the customer. And if I am effective in making what I do about you, and I can enhance you and elevate you, you will support me forever.

Music has always taken me to another plane of existence.

I like the idea of taking off like a bird.

I believe if I stay tall and run up high, I can see better.

I'm pretty tall, you know.

I was always taller than everybody else.

If I must choose which I would elevate— The people or the already lofty mountains, I'd elevate the already lofty mountains.

You do the damnedest things in order to rile yourself up. Most people settle for doing it in an elevator, but not you. No, you have to make sure it's a vampire you're playing kissy-face with.

To be loved by God is the highest relationship.

What some people find in religion a writer may find in his craft...a kind of breaking through to glory.

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

Self-respect is the noblest garment with which a man can clothe himself, the most elevating feeling with which the mind can be inspired.

He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.

My heart was light, quick, like an aero, and carrying, carrying me upward. I knew: tomorrow held some sort of joy. But what would it be?

HaMa'alot MiMa'amakim

Pride, like hooded hawks, in darkness soars From blindness bold, and towering to the skies.

Ammesso che la passione umana abbia la virtù d'innalzarsi al disopra di ogni assurdo, come si può sostenere che non abbia anche quella d'innalzarsi al disopra dei propri assurdi?

Beautiful things always intimidate me [...] More than that, they drag me down. How can that be? Is it a superstition that beauty elevates mankind?

La paura che nasce dal desiderio] scuote terribilmente ma non causa profonde ferite. Tormenta la nostra anima ma al tempo stesso la alimenta, la rinvigorisce. E' l'azione di una forza misteriosa che conferisce al cuore umano uno stato di passività e gli dona la capacità di elevarsi, per poterlo trascinare in un luogo segreto designato dagli Dei.

Even plants and animals were mechanised. Around the time that Homo sapiens was elevated to divine status by humanist religions, farm animals stopped being viewed as living creatures that could feel pain and distress, and instead came to be treated as machines.

can hold that relationship with God only because He's reaching over and holding us up to His level, not because we can ever reach to His level.

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.