Top 100 Rapture's Quotes
#1. Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.
Amy Lowell
#2. All things left her, all
But one. Her highborn courtliness
Accompanied her to the end,
Beyond the rapture and its eclipse,
In a way like an angel's. Of Elvira
The first thing that I saw - such years ago -
Was her smile and also it was the last.
Jorge Luis Borges
#3. And now, we have no option. We can't say 'maybe' 'it's possible' 'it looks very probable ... ' No way! We have to say this is what the Bible teaches! This is fact! May 21, 2011 is the day of the Rapture, it is the day that Judgment Day begins ...
Harold Camping
#5. In the thread's breadth between terror and rapture lies awareness.
Linda Robinson
#6. There's no meaning. What's the meaning of the universe? What's the meaning of a flea? It's just there. We're so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it's all about.
Joseph Campbell
#7. Gabriel caught her hand in his and pressed his open mouth to her palm. Julianne, you were never just my student. You're my soul mate. My bashert.
Sylvain Reynard
#8. I know many writers who say that the memory of reading fairy tales is their first, and sometimes only, memory of rapture. I hope that this unpredictable, intense collection inspires you to read fairy tales-and then to read them again.
Kate Bernheimer
#9. A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
Barbara Kingsolver
#10. You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture
Stephen Fry
#11. Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intelligence desires uncertainty, risk, a play of more deceptive and elusive forces ... where one can preserve flight, pride, joke, confession, rapture, play, struggle.
Witold Gombrowicz
#12. I think my favourite song on the album [Second Hand Rapture'] is 'Head Is Not My Home', I love the vocal melody and it's such a power hit of a track. Every time it pops on I like listening to it, I'm really drawn to it.
Lizzy Plapinger
#13. What moments divine , what rapture serene.
Cole Porter
#14. When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.
Jerry B. Jenkins
#15. It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.
Ted Dekker
#16. don't believe everything you read about the Rapture. In fact, don't believe most of what you read about the Rapture.
N. T. Wright
#17. Any man who has known a love bringing him such happiness--if even for a short time--that its loss steals his very will to live, is a man to be envied.
Justin in CRIMSON RAPTURE
Jennifer Horsman
#19. I know mine own!"--Walter Emmett Velvet, the Antichrist
A.R. Braun
#20. He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.
Phillip W. Simpson
#21. I shall have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love, love, love, above all. Love as there has never been in a play. Unbiddable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done, come ruin or rapture.
Tom Stoppard
#22. Oh! Many a time and oft had Harold loved, or dream'd he'd loved since Rapture is a dream.
George Gordon Byron
#23. The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.
Richard Cecil
#24. Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.
Vladimir Nabokov
#25. I walk making up phrases; sit, contriving scenes; am in short in the thick of the greatest rapture known to me.
Virginia Woolf
#26. Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs.
Joan Rivers
#27. I told you I would go to Hell to rescue you and that's just what I did ... And I'd do it again.
Sylvain Reynard
#28. Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.
Mary Roach
#29. Thus, we must realize that October 21, 2011 will be the final day of this earth's existence.
Harold Camping
#30. All this rapture," managed Letty, wriggling out of her mother's grasp, "is decidedly premature.
Lauren Willig
#31. I came on the intro with 'The Rapture.' If you know what the rapture is, it's the coming of Jesus, and I had to take it off because of what happened ... I had the destruction, the bombs, and ... the world coming to a end, so it had to come off.
Erick Sermon
#32. For every rapture there is a price and nothing is sustained forever. The path that destiny takes in the end leads to a balance of payments. No one remains overdrawn forever. Destiny's bank is inexorable, all accounts must balance.
Dorothy Fuldheim
#33. Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.
Emma Lazarus
#34. Your poor lungs." "We're not gonna live long enough to get cancer. The Bible says there's just seven years of Tribulation after the Rapture.
Tom Perrotta
#35. Love is a delicious experience, it's the fire that consumes, it's Divine Wine, rapture for the one who drinks it.
Samael Aun Weor
#36. ...in Dillard it's the comedy of rapture. Or at least it's a comedy that permits prose and thought to soar while inoculating the rapturous against the three ills of which nature writers should live in permanent dread: preciousness, reverence, and earnestness...
Geoff Dyer
#37. O Paradise, O Paradise! Who doth not crave for rest? Who would not see the happy land Where they that loved are blest? Refrain Where loyal hearts and true Stand ever in the light, All rapture through and through In God's most holy sight. O Paradise, O Paradise, The world is growing old;
Theron Brown
#38. You toyed with her heart. I know what that's like. I can have compassion for her because of that."
"I met you first," he whispered.
"That doesn't give you license to be cruel.
Sylvain Reynard
#39. Only to sit and think of God, Oh what a joy it is! To think the thought, to breathe the Name; Earth has no higher bliss. Father of Jesus, love's reward! What rapture will it be, Prostrate before Thy throne to lie, And gaze and gaze on Thee!
A.W. Tozer
#40. Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
#41. Don't wait too long. Life takes unexpected turns, and we don't always have the time we think we have.
Sylvain Reynard
#42. A momentary gain in one's own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee;
Michael Chabon
#43. There's a moment in every book when the story and characters are finally there; they come to life, they're in control. They do things they're not supposed to do and become people they weren't meant to be. When I reach that place, it's magic. It's a kind of rapture.
Sara Gruen
#44. There it is!' he thought with rapture. 'When I was already in despair, and when it seemed there would be no end- there it is! She loves me. She's confessed it.
Leo Tolstoy
#45. I breathe you," he whispered. "You're everything. You're the air."
-Gabriel
Sylvain Reynard
#46. [Ned Flanders]: Well looks like someone's having a pre-rapture party.
[Homer Simpson]: No, Flanders. Its a meeting of gay witches for abortion, you wouldn't be interested.
Matt Groening
#47. She felt the adagio from Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez strumming at her inner thighs like a guitar, and then slowly moving upwards until it wrapped around her heart in its denouement.
Lawren Leo
#48. Rachel looked annoyed. "Do you think he's embarrassed by us?"
"More likely he's embarrassed by her," said Gabriel. "She's probably a stripper."
"Professors in glass houses shouldn't throw stones." Rachel glared at her brother and stormed out.
Sylvain Reynard
#49. Out of your whole life give but a moment!
All of your life that has gone before,
All to come after it, -so you ignore,
So you make perfect the present, condense,
In a rapture of rage, for perfection's endowment,
Thought and feeling and soul and sense.
Robert Browning
#50. The body is more than the temple of the soul. It's the grounded celebration of its rapture.
S. Kelley Harrell
#51. I love how you feel in my arms, how you respond to my touch and how your face takes on an expression of pure rapture when we make love. When we're apart I ache to be with you. There is no doubt in my mind that what I feel for you is the truest, deepest form of love possible.
Wendy S. Marcus
#53. Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
Bill Moyers
#54. He had thought of love as a rapture which seized one so that all the world seemed spring-like, he had looked forward to an ecstatic happiness; but this was not happiness; it was a hunger of the soul, it was a painful yearning, it was a bitter anguish, he had never known before.
W. Somerset Maugham
#55. Respect Joy. Joy is not something that happens instead of something else important; It isn't a waste of time; It is, really, what time was invented for. -David Sosnowski, Rapture. (Pg. 92)
David Sosnowski
#56. The shock was akin to that of buying, out of duty, a novel written by a dull and uninspired acquaintance and finding there passages of heartrending beauty and rapture that one could never imagine coming from such a tedious person.
Andrew Sean Greer
#57. Why do we allow people to abuse their children? Why don't we defend the sick and the weak? Why do we let soldiers round up our neighbors and make them wear a star on their clothing and cram them into boxcars? It isn't God who's evil-it's us.
Sylvain Reynard
#58. I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book ... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved.
Nora Ephron
#59. Growing up, she felt so unworthy of having her deepest desires satisfied, of being loved absolutely. She didn't feel that way anymore.
Sylvain Reynard
#60. AZRAEL:
No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater ... than central air.
Kevin Smith
#62. Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence ... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication.
Gautama Buddha
#63. The eye of the intellect is drunk with You, the wheeling galaxy is humble before You, the ear of ecstasy is in Your hand; nothing happens without You.
The soul is bubbling with You, the heart imbibes from You, the intellect bellows in rapture; nothing happens without You.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#64. We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.
Anthony Kiedis
#65. Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by atheists and agnostics than each other.
Wendy Kaminer
#66. Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'
Barbara Carrera
#67. God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.
Rumi
#68. Over the meeting of the lovers I draw a veil. The burst of rapture with which they clasped each other in a wild embrace
the many inquiries
the fond regrets and thrilling hopes
it is out of my power to convey. Let me, therefore, leave them to their happiness.
George Henry Lewes
#69. The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.
Anthony S. Maulucci
#70. Greta, Greta, he whispered, eyes shut in rapture, on thy breast I write my Edda, at thy feet I lay the keys of Niflheim, by thy leave alone, I live, and breathe, and die.
Catherynne M Valente
#71. Let the power come. Let ecstasy erupt. Allow your heart to expand and overflow with adoration for this magnificent creation and for the love, wisdom and power that birthed it all. Rapture is needed now - rapture, reverence and grace.
Ann Mortifee
#72. What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
P. J. O'Rourke
#74. Rapture is costly; it usually means you are overlooking consequences.
Sherry Turkle
#75. The rapture will neutralize natural death; God's enemies will be begging for a way out of the world.
Felix Wantang
#76. Won't You guide me through the dark night of the soul That I may better understand Your way ... Let me purify my thoughts and words and deeds That I may be a vehicle for Thee ... Give me my rapture today.
Van Morrison
#77. It is like a woman indeed
To take rapture before the fact is shown for true.
They believe too easily, are too quick to shift
From ground to ground; and swift indeed
The rumor voiced by a woman dies again.
Aeschylus
#78. I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.
David Zindell
#79. Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
Charles Churchill
#80. Oh, hasten not this loving act, Rapture where self and not-self meet: My life has been the awaiting you, Your footfall was my own heart's beat.
Paul Valery
#81. Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture.
Joseph Addison
#82. The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.
Stanley Kunitz
#83. The hospital, by necessity, may send a man home with one leg less: but it will not (in a creative rapture) send him home with one leg extra.
G.K. Chesterton
#84. How dearly, indeed, I loved my pit, my dusky room, the area of my desk with its piles of books! How I enjoyed introspection, shrouded myself in cogitation; with what rapture did I listen for the rustling of frail insects in the thickets of my nerves!
Yukio Mishima
#85. People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think that what we're seeking is an experience of being alive ... so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. - JOSEPH CAMPBELL
Elizabeth Lesser
#86. Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!
Petrarch
#87. There is a seaward bulge of stratocumulus. Sun glint and littoral drift. I see blooms of plankton in a blue of such Persian richness it seems an animal rapture, a colour change to express some form of intuitive delight.
Don DeLillo
#88. One year before the Rapture " ... that proves how marvellous God's love is, even for the most miserable human beings, being that demons can never take a human figure in a perfect form, and so the most stupid people are able to discover them." Nicholas Remy, Daemonolatreiae libri tres, 1595.
Phillip W. Simpson
#89. Terror and rapture to Emily Dickinson are alternative words for "transport".
Harold Bloom
#90. I am the Penitent God. And tonight, I have begun my battle. My siege. The hundred-thousand Ink-borne arrows, flying forth from my flaming pen, to assault the walls of tyrannical Cold that hold this man in awful rapture. My campaign for my friend's very soul. My war of Ice, Ink, and Ember.
S.G. Night
#91. She's sweet but too apocalyptic. You try kissing someone good-night who's just told you for the umpteenth time that the world's experiencing its last disgusting paroxysm before Rapture.
George Saunders
#92. Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.
William Hazlitt
#93. Assuming that rapture is nature's play with man, the Dionysian artist's creative activity is the play with rapture.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#94. I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.
Tom Perrotta
#95. 6 weeks since the Rapture "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." Corinthians 15:50
Phillip W. Simpson
#96. Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.
Steve Erickson
#97. Mystical bliss, joy and rapture arises when you realize the inner Sun.
Amit Ray
#98. Lord, What a terrible shame. You're so attractive!'
I know, I want to tell her. It should have happened to someone really ugly. And then it wouldn't have mattered.
Liz Jensen
#99. Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned
I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.
Frank Zappa
#100. In Euripedes's The Bacchae...Dionysus dispenses food, drink and comfort, and inspires communal energy, song and dance; he is rapture and rage, illumination and blindness.
Anya Taylor
