#ecstasy

Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#melancholy #seductive

Why does an iPhone cost only a couple hundred dollars? Because, as the stage performer Mike Daisey depicted in an arresting one-man show called 'The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs,' Apple's shiniest products are made by a shadowy company in China called Foxconn. ↗

— Eric Liu

#apple #arresting #because #called #china

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

— Walter Pater

#burn #ecstasy #flame #hard #life

Some of the wise boys who say my music is loud, blatant and that's all should see the faces of the kids who have driven a hundred miles through the snow to see the band... to stand in front of the bandstand in an ecstasy all their own. ↗

— Stan Kenton

#bandstand #blatant #driven #ecstasy #faces

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. ↗

— Jack London

#beyond #cannot #comes #complete #ecstasy

Let soul speak with the silent articulation of a face. ↗

— Rumi

#love

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

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. ↗

— Georges Bataille

#apparent #cohesion #ecstasy #ecstatic #finds