Top 25 Ecstasy Quotes of 60

The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.

The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.

Long, Forget, Ecstasy

The ultimate aim of the quest must be neither release nor ecstasy for oneself, but the wisdom and the power to serve others.

Joseph Campbell

Quests, Release, Ecstasy

Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.14, Anchor

The theatre infects the audience with its noble ecstasy.

Constantin Stanislavski

Theatre, Noble, Ecstasy

Art is the communication of ecstasy.

P.D. Ouspensky

Art, Communication, Ecstasy

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy.

Mason Cooley

Seductive, Melancholy, Ecstasy

Find ecstasy within yourself. It is not out there. It is in your innermost flowering. The one you are looking for is you.

Rajneesh

Spiritual, Meditation, Ecstasy

Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Jean Genet

Betrayal, Betrayed, Ecstasy

Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Anais Nin

Ordinary World, Ecstasy, Tempo

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

Rita Dove

Clouds, Minutes, Ecstasy

Rita Dove, Earl G. Ingersoll (2003). “Conversations with Rita Dove”, p.138, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Epictetus

Best Wishes, Wish, Ecstasy

Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

Bill Watterson

Demand, Enough, Ecstasy

"There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.

Simone Weil

Attention, Awareness, Ecstasy

Simone Weil (2013). “The Notebooks of Simone Weil”, p.515, Routledge

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Norma Shearer

Actresses, Motion Pictures, Ecstasy

Sacrifice is the ecstasy of giving the best we have to the One we love most.

J. Oswald Sanders

Sacrifice, Giving, Ecstasy

J. Oswald Sanders (2010). “Dynamic Spiritual Leadership: Leading Like Paul”, p.124, Discovery House

An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.

Mark Twain

Ecstasy, Feels

Mark Twain, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Mark Twain: All 13 Novels, Short Stories, Poetry and Essays”, p.1290, GENERAL PRESS

Take all away from me, but leave me Ecstasy, And I am richer then than all my Fellow Men-.

Emily Dickinson

Men, Fellow Man, Ecstasy

Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1464, Harvard University Press

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

Andrew Solomon

Joy, Ordinary, Ecstasy

"How Do Our Worst Moments Shape Us?". "TED Radio Hour", andrewsolomon.com. August 1, 2014.

Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?

Sergei Dovlatov

Assuming, Kind, Ecstasy

Sergei Dovlatov (2012). “The Zone: A Prison Camp Guard's Story”, p.72, Counterpoint Press

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Melting, Delirium, Ecstasy

Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is - and still not caring.

Tom Robbins

Caring, Knowing, Ecstasy