#ecstasy

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time. ↗

— Emil Cioran

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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight. ↗

— Jack London

#ecstasy #life #food

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

On the blue summer evenings, I will go along the paths, And walk over the short grass, as I am pricked by the wheat: Daydreaming I will feel the coolness on my feet. I will let the wind bathe my bare head. I will not speak, I will have no thoughts: But infinite love will mount in my soul; And I will go far, far off, like a gypsy, through the countryside - as happy as if I were a woman. "Sensation ↗

— Arthur Rimbaud

#nature #love

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria! ↗

— Bill Watterson

#happiness #happy

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

— Stephen Chbosky

#wonder

It totally ruins my voice. I quit smoking, drinking, and doing ecstasy. ↗

— Mark Hoppus

#drinking #ecstasy #i #i quit #quit

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#beauty #ecstasy #hunger #like #nothing

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

— Walter Pater

#burn #ecstasy #flame #hard #life

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable. ↗

— William Shatner

#composition #doing #drama #ecstasy #film