Ecstatic Quotes

• Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames

  Rumi

  Inspirational, I Hate You, Flames

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• The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.

  Umberto Eco

  Vision, Steps, Frenzy

  "The Name of the Rose". www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Women, Writing

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• When you are in a condition of light everything is ecstatic, everything is joyous, everything is beautiful. Your attention field is subtle. The ego is quiet. The mind is still. Your heart is happy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beautiful, Heart, Buddhism

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• Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Soul, Acting

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• I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience

  Shakti Gawain

  Body, Convinced, Meant To Be

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “The Path of Transformation: How Healing Ourselves Can Change the World”, p.139, New World Library

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• I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.

  Yoko Ono

  Encounters, Moments, Relate

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• Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Change, Spiritual

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• The world is waiting for new saints, ecstatic men and women who are so deeply rooted in the love of God that they are free to imagine a new international order.

  Henri Nouwen

  Men, Order, Waiting

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• The Soul should always stand ajar.

  Emily Dickinson

  Soul, Experience, Ecstatic Love

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.300, First Avenue Editions

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• I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.

  Wayne Coyne

  People, Want, Cry

  "Straight from the Lip" by Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2003.

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• For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Happiness, Joy, Ecstatic Love

  Emily Dickinson (2016). “The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.98, First Avenue Editions

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• I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

  Neil Armstrong

  Successful

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• 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

  Love, Taken, Reality

  Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939”, p.179, U of Minnesota Press

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• Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting 'Hiawatha' and they groan.

  Erica Jong

  Teacher, School, Thinking

  "Love Comes First" by Erica Jong, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 2, 2009.

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• She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Voice, Roots, Dust

  Zora Neale Hurston (1937). “Their Eyes Were Watching God”, p.15, University of Illinois Press

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• Ecstasy is our very nature, not to be ecstatic is simply unnecessary. To be ecstatic is natural, spontaneous. It needs no effort to be ecstatic, it needs great effort to be miserable. That's why you look so tired, because misery is real hard work; to maintain it is really difficult, because you are doing something against the nature.

  Rajneesh

  Hard Work, Tired, People

  "The Book of Wisdom". Book by Osho, 1983.

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• Although the events we appear to perceive in dreams are illusory, our feelings in response to dream content are real. Indeed, most of the events we experience in dreams are real; when we experience feelings, say, anxiety or ecstasy, in dreams, we really do feel anxious or ecstatic at the time.

  Stephen LaBerge

  Dream, Real, Anxiety

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• I started producing work with an ecstatic addiction.

  Ben Nicholson

  Addiction

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• People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Thinking, People, Architecture

  "From Bauhaus to Koolhaas". Interview with Katrina Heron, www.wired.com. July 1, 1996.

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• In simple hearts the feeling for the beauty and grandeur of nature is a hundred-fold stronger and more vivid than in us, ecstatic composers of narratives in words and on paper.

  Mikhail Lermontov

  Nature, Heart, Simple

  Mikhail Lermontov (2015). “A Hero of Our Time”, p.32, Xist Publishing

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• But I still read Shaw on a regular basis. What I love is the nakedness of the polemic and the irresistible good humour. For me, 'Major Barbara' is the greatest of all the plays in that it starts from the rational and proceeds to the ecstatic in a spectacular way, and leaves you very confused if you cling to Euclidean logic.

  Tony Kushner

  Confused, Love Is, Play

  "Tony Kushner: 'At first I was horrified'". Interview with Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. August 15, 2011.

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• I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

  Johnny Depp

  Men, Position Of Power, Ecstatic Love

  "Johnny Depp: U.S. is like a stupid puppy". www.cnn.com. September 3, 2003.

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• I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring.

  Tom Baker

  Disappointment, Doctors, Kind

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• The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is often uttered only to find itself suddenly embarrassing or orphaned or isolated or ill-timed—but strangely enough it can work better as a literal or reassuring statement than a transcendent or numinous or ecstatic one.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Love Is, Humanity, Three

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch 22: A Memoir”, p.306, Atlantic Books Ltd

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