Quotes About Being Ecstatic

#1. I'm not used to studios being ecstatic about we did and saying, "Please go do that again."

Robert Downey Jr.

#2. Greatness of soul is available to people who do not have the luxury of being ecstatic about the condition and appearance of their bodies.

John Ortberg

#3. Ours was such a delicious risk. My being abruptly and altogether Ecstatic and be-stilled.

Scott Hastie

#4. War will change people.

Aaron Starmer

#5. For you cannot live in New York City very long and not be conscious of the niceties of being rich - the city is, after all, an ecstatic exercise in merchandising - and one evening of his visit to Venezuela Sutherland sat straight up when he read a line of Santayana's: Money is the petrol of life.

Andrew Holleran

#6. A party is like a sausage machine, it grinds up all sorts of heads together into the same baloney ...

Henrik Ibsen

#7. I think Democrats made a mistake running away from liberalism. Liberalism, uh, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John and Robert Kennedy - that's what the Democratic party ought to reach for.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#8. That okay. I'll go find somewhere else to sleep."
Her fingers wrap around my arm. "You don't have to go anywhere. I feel safe with you.

Jessica Sorensen

#9. I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

Idi Amin

#10. The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.

Suheir Hammad

#11. hopefully. "Recently, I mean." "I've got other things to be doing than tracking elephants!" said the chital. "Motherhood's not easy, you know!" "No of course not,

Asif W

#12. He was alone in the doorway, digging the street. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness
everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being.

Jack Kerouac

#13. She felt the essence of herself pulled finer and smaller like those streams of spun glass that pull and stretch till there remains but a glimmering illusion. Neither falling nor breaking, the stream spins finer. She felt herself very small and ecstatic. Alabama was in love.

Zelda Fitzgerald

#14. One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

Orson Welles

#15. WHATEVER TAKES US to our edge, to our outer limits, leads us to the heart of life's mystery, and there we find faith.

Sharon Salzberg

#16. Being lonely does not mean that we are abnormal, love-starved, oversexed, or alienated. Perhaps all it means is that we are incurably human and sensitive to the fact that God made us for an ecstatic togetherness in a body with divine love and with all other persons of sincere will.

Ronald Rolheiser

#17. I wasn't ecstatic about being pregnant - I wasn't somebody who actively wanted kids. Certainly there were no fantasies about nappy-changing.

Elizabeth McGovern

#18. Regular meditation opens the avenues of
intuitional knowledge,
makes the mind calm and steady,
awakens an ecstatic feeling,
and brings the practitioner in contact
with the source of his/her very being.

Sivananda

#19. In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.

Stefan Zweig

#20. I waited my whole life to be a woman, so now my clothes are fairly tight.

Jenny Slate

#21. I'm afraid that, if I let myself feel ecstatic about being with you, then when you leave me, I won't be able to pull myself back together..

Jodi Picoult

#22. Humility accepts the very nature of a human being is complete, unadulterated, ecstatic joy.

Frederick Lenz

#23. I'm reading Our Ecstatic Days, by Steve Erickson. It's an extraordinary journey and the most exciting thing I've found since The Master and Margarita, which I've read about 20 times. I like being taken away somewhere by a book.

Sienna Guillory

#24. Yoga is the journey from just eating and sleeping to becoming an ecstatic being. This is the aspiration of life itself.

Jaggi Vasudev

#25. It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who are concerned with the possible political and social consequences, and that this has been true throughout the ages.

Evgeny Morozov

#26. Kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.

Mary Stewart

#27. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness - everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being (195).

Jack Kerouac

#28. Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?

Robert Breault