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Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it’s pleasure, but you don’t get wiped out.
Paul Simon
Ecstasy Pleasure Song Time Words
Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson
Ecstasy Joy Life Living Sense
The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard
Being Ecstasy Envy Gods Joy
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Charles Baudelaire
Ecstasy Feelings Heart Horror Life
Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that’s all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band… to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own.
Stan Kenton
Boys Ecstasy Faces Kids Music Snow
The moment eternal – just that and no more – When ecstasy’s utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
Robert Browning
Ecstasy Eyes Open
It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.
Mark Hoppus
Drinking Ecstasy Smoking Voice
There’s an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture… It’s palpable.
William Shatner
Drama Ecstasy
One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
Ivan Turgenev
Earth Ecstasy Enthusiasm Fire May
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.
Logan P. Smith
Ecstasy
Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.
Jean Genet
Betrayal Ecstasy Nothing
My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
Carlos Santana
Dance Ecstasy Job Life Music People Spiritual
The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I’ve seen ecstasy or something.
Rita Dove
Clouds Ecstasy Poetry
If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
Jean Cocteau
Comfort Ecstasy State
Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
Walter Pater
Ecstasy Life Love May Sense Sorrow
I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.
Anais Nin
Ecstasy Joy Love Will World
I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.
Hedy Lamarr
Ecstasy Father Mother
Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Honore De Balzac
Despair Ecstasy Men Spirits
Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.
James Broughton
Ecstasy Poetry Practice Spiritual
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
Delight Ecstasy Heart Love Will World
Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.
Clive Bell
Alliance Art Circumstance Ecstasy Family Men Mind Religion Religious states
And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.
Hart Crane
Dance Ecstasy Freedom Life Walking World
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Jack London
Ecstasy Forgetfulness Life Living Paradox
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
Simone Weil
Attention Ecstasy
It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Franz Kafka
Ecstasy Feet Present Will World
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
W. Somerset Maugham
Beauty Ecstasy Hunger Nothing
I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.
Wavy Gravy
Ecstasy Life Now
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
Clive Bell
Art Ecstasy Emotion Road World
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka
Choice Ecstasy Feet Quiet Will World
To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.
Walter Pater
Ecstasy Life Success
Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
Walter Benjamin
Destruction Ecstasy Living
I think we’ve come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.
Neil Tennant
Ecstasy
Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
Orson Welles
Ecstasy
Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.
Mason Cooley
Ecstasy Melancholy
Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.
Kenneth Rexroth
Angels Disgust Ecstasy Man
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
Georges Bataille
Ecstasy Life Love Reality
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
John Updike
Ecstasy Existence Experience
Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.
Norma Shearer
Being Ecstasy
After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.
Joy Page
Ecstasy Eternity Grief Paradox
Young kids are taking Viagra, ecstasy. They even want instant sex.
Tim Reid
Ecstasy Kids Sex Want