Exultation Quotes

#1. I confess that I love him, I rejoice that I love him, I thank the maker of Heaven and Earth that gave him to me. The exultation floods me.

Emily Dickinson

#2. He laughed in exultation as he came upon the house, the rush of his full power better than any human drug, the joy of its unfettered release expanding his heart with every beat, gorging his lungs with every breath.

D.B. Reynolds

#3. The wind hums low with sweet exultation, sings its lullaby, while you sleep ...

John Geddes

#4. I wait. Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight. I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness. Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

Edward Abbey

#5. I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#6. Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game, with the exuberance of experience, the strange and terribly subtle final aims of my Asiatic Blood that remain a mystery to you.

Paul Meyer

#7. he was evidently in a state of suppressed exultation

Anonymous

#8. I will offer to Him both my tears and my exultation. Nothing we offer to Him will be lost.

Elisabeth Elliot

#9. One of the surest evidences of an elevated taste is the power of enjoying works of impassioned terrorism, in poetry, and painting. The man who can look at impassioned subjects of terror with a feeling of exultation may be certain he has an elevated taste.

Benjamin Haydon

#10. We'd saved him as much by joining in his exultation as we had by witnessing his shame. And all of it depended upon our action, our interference in his life, because no man is saved without love.

Gregory David Roberts

#11. That hour always had the exultation of victory, of triumphant ending, like a hero's death - heroes who died young and gloriously. It was a sudden transfiguration, a lifting-up of day. How

Willa Cather

#12. Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.

Kallam Anji Reddy

#13. It is not sufficiently considered in the hour of exultation, that all human excellence is comparative; that no man performs much but in proportion to what other accomplish, or to the time and opportunities which have been allowed him.

Samuel Butler

#14. Tantra is for the desperate. Unless you've really experienced pain and suffering, tantra won't work. Unless you've really experienced exultation and ecstasy, tantra won't work.

Frederick Lenz

#15. I think we've all been kind of ... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.

Mark Ruffalo

#16. While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

William Butler Yeats

#17. God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.

Charles Spurgeon

#18. Bits of exultation kept peeping out, and Lucia kept poking them back.

E.F. Benson

#19. Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.

Vera Nazarian

#20. People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on ... like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.

Brian Wilson

#21. And if some self-proclaimed expert tells you that Martians are disembodied creatures of brain without emotion, let him listen to the recordings that were made of those cries, of victory, of vengeance, of exultation. 'Ulla! Ulla!' We

Stephen Baxter

#22. I ask of writing what I ask of desire: that it have no relation to the logic which puts desire on the side of possession, of acquisition, or even of that consumption-consummation which, when pushed to its limits with such exultation, links (false) consciousness with death

Helene Cixous

#23. Thou art my glory and the exultation of y heart: thou art my hope and refuge in the day of my trouble.

Thomas A Kempis

#24. Dr. Chopra describes all addiction as a lack of exultation; meaning that something is missing from the person's life. From a mind-body medicine perspective the best

John Barrett Hawkins

#25. The soul of her youth clamored for its rights; for a share in the world's glory and exultation.

Kate Chopin

#26. Man is a part of God, or else he is a beast; and beasts know love and fear and hate and hunger
but not exultation

Howard Fast

#27. Could have cried aloud in exultation when my scrutiny disclosed the almost invisible incrustation of particles of carbonized electrons which are thrown off by these Martian torches. It

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#28. Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea Past the houses, past the headlands Into deep eternity! Bred as we, among the mountains Can the sailor understand The divine intoxication Of the first league out from land?

Emily Dickinson

#29. There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.

Charles Spurgeon

#30. Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

Diana Gabaldon

#31. Life that only a few hours before had glowed with enthusiasm and exultation, suddenly paled and sickened.

Fritz Kreisler

#32. Play is the exultation of the possible.

Martin Buber

#33. The word 'yes' is just a sound. It's nothing without context. It can signal the end of a life, an exultation after a scored basket or a vanquished foe; it can answer questions or refute them; it's an affirmation.

Josh Hanagarne

#34. The exultation of poverty as a spiritual virtue is of the ego, not the spirit. A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

Marianne Williamson

#35. To have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation - this to to have succeeded.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#36. Who breaks the Law -' said Moreau, taking his eyes off his victim and turning towards us. It seemed to me there was a touch of exultation in his voice. '- goes back to the House of Pain,' they all clamoured; 'goes back to the House of Pain, O Master!

H.G.Wells

#37. He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

Samuel Eliot Morison

#38. When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope.

George Eliot

#39. He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness, too, fullness of heart, appreciation, and many other emotions. But not joy. No, that belonged to simpler minds.

Evan S. Connell

#40. Behold the onset of my flinty tone. Along with so much else, a soft-tissue sarcoma can apparently drain the exultation from one's prose.

Jonathan Lethem

#41. (President) Lyndon Johnson still snapped between exultation and insecurity.

Rick Perlstein

#42. We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war.

Douglas MacArthur

#43. A wise man can do no better than to turn from the churches and look up through the airy majesty of the wayside trees with exultation, with resignation, at the unconquerable uncomplicated sun.

Llewelyn Powys

#44. But never in all her human days had her blood bubbled with such a golden exultation and such blissful freedom as now when she ran, a werewolf, across the marsh.

Aino Kallas

#45. Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.

Dale Carnegie

#46. Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.

John Cowper Powys

#47. Let me live deep while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat & stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame crimson, and I am content ... Conan the Cimmerian.

Robert E. Howard

#48. The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in sheer exultation so that from bottom to top it should be a unit without a single dissenting line.

Louis Sullivan

#49. Thank God, I say, for while I love you so, With that vast love, as passionate as tender, I feel an exultation as I know I have not made you a complete surrender. Here is my body; bruise it, if you will, And break my heart; I have that something still. You cannot grasp it

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#50. she allowed herself to dwell on the cause of this strange, apprehensive exultation that she sensed flickering at the edge of her mind: it was the rarest thing of all - a man whom she knew at once, and without any qualification, to be her equal.

Philip Pullman

#51. The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.

George Eliot

#52. All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.

Scott Spencer

#53. A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

Thomas Aquinas

#54. Is that Eduardo Lucas of Godolphin Street?" "Yes." "You will not see him." "Why not?" "He was murdered in his house last night." My friend has so often astonished me in the course of our adventures that it was with a sense of exultation that I realized how completely I had astonished him.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#55. What remains to be done must be done by you; since in order not to deprive us of our free will and such share of glory as belongs to us, God will not do everything himself.

Niccolo Machiavelli