Ecstasy Quotes

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.

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something.

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is.

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

I think we've come a long way since then. The big thing that changed was when ecstasy came along in Britain.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

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.

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.

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.

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.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn.

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

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

It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy.

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.

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

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.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.