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Quotes About Exhilaration

Leaving Wychwood gave him, as it did each time, the mingled anxiety and exhilaration of a rebirth. Womb-warm and sequestered, it was at once a sanctuary and a place of internment.
~ Unknown
Let's keep winning! I love to be exhausted on winning!
~ Mark Meadows
I've always loved singing. I find it exhilarating.
~ Madeleine Peyroux
I think the longform email is exhilarating and exhausting at the same time.
~ Phoebe Bridgers
Being on stage is like running a marathon every night.
~ Lesley Sharp
The most common descriptions I have found of the moment when death occurs is that there is a feeling of coldness and then suddenly the spirit is standing by the side of the bed (or wherever) looking at their body. They usually can't understand why the other people in the room are so upset because they feel so wonderful. The overall sensation is one of exhilaration rather than dread.
~ Dolores Cannon
All of a sudden, I found myself at the top. I was in what we later called a cabin, three walls and a door, also open, the plain spreading out before me. I bounded forward and looked. It was the world.
~ Jacqueline Harpman
Connie threw back her head, opened her mouth and cried to the heavens, as every sensation built and exploded inside her, fireworks and waterfalls, starburst and throbbing heat.
~ Unknown
Visions of ineffable beauty and harmony, health and exhilaration of body and soul, and grand foundation lessons in Nature's eternal love are the sure reward of every earnest looker in this glorious wilderness.
~ John Muir
blows and shouts being indeed no more than expressions of the confused ideas which exhilarated me, and which, not being developed to the point at which they might rest exposed to the light of day, rather than submit to a slow and difficult course of elucidation, found it easier and more pleasant to drift into an immediate outlet.
~ Marcel Proust
Eventually, ecstatic, she outlasted the night.
~ Unknown
Anyone who's just driven 90 yards against huge men trying to kill them has earned the right to do Jazz hands.
~ Craig Ferguson
The writing life: frustration, fear, independence, exhilaration, worry, adventure, a sense of the unknown.
~ Mark Rubinstein
I do not know just how long it takes to become saturated with the elements so that one takes no account of them. Myself can never get past the glow and exhilaration of a storm, the wrestle of long dust-heavy winds, the play of live thunder on the rocks, nor past the keen fret of fatigue when the storm outlasts physical endurance.
~ Mary Hunter Austin
Victorahwooooooooo
~ Unknown
My dream is to die thinking "Wow, that was fun! I'm tired.
~ Unknown
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
It does not matter whether we see or we not-see, as long as we are in control of what is happening to us. The same person can meditate in the morning and shut out all sensory experience, and then look at a great work of art in the afternoon; either way he may be transformed by the same sense of exhilaration.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Yet we have all experienced times when, instead of being buffeted by anonymous forces, we do feel in control of our actions, masters of our own fate. On the rare occasions that it happens, we feel a sense of exhilaration, a deep sense of enjoyment that is long cherished and that becomes a landmark in memory for what life should be like.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The same person can meditate in the morning and shut out all sensory experience, and then look at a great work of art in the afternoon; either way he may be transformed by the same sense of exhilaration.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
This has been one of the best days of my life," she said.
~ Mineko Iwasaki
Such vastness makes for illusion, a kind of illusion that comprehends reality, and where it exists there is always wonder and exhilaration.
~ N. Scott Momaday
Danner strode out of her offices, the adrenaline of rage surging light and hot through her veins. Rage that soon became a kind of exhilaration. She was going to do her job. At last.
~ Nicola Griffith
The realization of what she had done, the exhilaration of her own strength rushed into her, like champagne rushing to fill lead crystal. She shimmered with it, she fizzed. I wanted to lift her in both hands, drink her down, drain her, feel the foam inside me, circling around heart, lungs, stomach.
~ Nicola Griffith