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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

Earth Ecstasy Enthusiasm Fire May

It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.

Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ecstasy Forgetfulness Life Living Paradox

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Choice Ecstasy Feet Quiet Will World

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

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.

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

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.

Ecstasy Existence Experience

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of 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.

Ecstasy Eternity Grief Paradox

Young kids are taking Viagra, ecstasy. They even want instant sex.

Ecstasy Kids Sex Want