#ecstasy

I am too not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#ecstasy #individuality #joy-of-life #life

Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#wonder

The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral. ↗

— George Steiner

#ecstasy #whisper #grammar

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy. ↗

— Norma Shearer

#being #ecstasy #motion #motion picture #picture

To burn always with this hard gemlike flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ↗

— Walter Pater

#success #art

We want ecstasy as a way of life, not a liver-poisoning alcoholiday from it. ↗

— CrimethInc.

#ecstasy #sobriety #life

Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise". ↗

— Stephen Fry

#hells #moab #music #pain #stephen-fry

Understanding is a kind of ecstasy ↗

— Carl Sagan

#understanding #science

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy. ↗

— Honore de Balzac

#die #ecstasy #men #spirits #while

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#destruction #ecstasy #frenzy #living #only