Exultant Quotes

#1. Clarissa, sane Clarissa-exultant, ordinary Clarissa- will go on, loving London, loving her life of ordinary pleasure, and someone else, a deranged poet, a visionary, will be the one to die.

Michael Cunningham

#2. He turned up the car radio and punched buttons until he found something loud and thumpingly exultant, some piece of jolly stupidity from AC/DC.

Tad Williams

#3. There was something unmistakably exultant about the mess that Rosa had made. Her bedroom-studio was at once the canvas, journal, museum, and midden of her life. She did not "decorate" it; she infused it.

Michael Chabon

#4. For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.

Soren Kierkegaard

#5. I wanted to live, and the knowledge filled me with a fierce and exultant joy until I felt like flame in a world made of paper. I wanted to live.

Elliott James

#6. To play is to act out and be willful, exultant and committed, as if one is assured of one's prospects.

Brian Sutton-Smith

#7. I returned to London in the spring of 1926 for the General Strike. It was the topic of Paris. The French, exultant as always at the discomfiture of their former friends, and transposing into their own precise terms our mistier notions from across the Channel, foretold revolution and civil

Evelyn Waugh

#8. A passion-driven exultant man sings out
Sentences that he has never thought ...

William Butler Yeats

#9. Marriage can be more an exultant ecstasy than the human mind can conceive. This is within the reach of every couple, every person.

Spencer W. Kimball

#10. Rising from the ashes, I am born again,
powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain.

Shannon Perry

#11. SNAPE: "Did no one teach you to knock, boy?"
Scorpius looks up at Snape, slightly breathless, slightly unsure, slightly exultant.
SCORPIUS: "Severus Snape. This is an honor.

J.K. Rowling

#12. Like clouds in rain, like seas
Exultant as they roll,
We mix in ecstasies,
And, as breeze melts in breeze,
Thy soul becomes my soul.

Aleister Crowley

#13. left my box of cubicle gear in the trunk, stashed like a dead body. I pasted on a smile and walked into the house. My mother was just hanging up the phone and looked exultant. "Guess what?" she said.

Sandra Byrd

#14. The life of hero is the tale of a person overcoming personal hardship and obstacles while striving to achieve an exultant victory that voices repressed citizens' ecstatic thoughts and dreams.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#15. The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.

George Matthew Adams

#16. I slept peacefully that night, feeling exultant and determined. Little did I know that I was making the most common and the most painful mistake women have made all throughout the ages: to naively think that with their love they can change the man they love.

Elif Shafak

#17. Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

George Steiner

#18. If one is traveling simply for the sake of traveling," Bly liked to say, "and not for the purpose of impressing fellow travelers, the problem of baggage becomes a very simple one.

Matthew Goodman

#19. All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes.

William E. Gladstone

#20. I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

Sigmund Freud

#21. A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#22. The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson