#ecstasy

It’s something useless, sudden, violent; something that costs a life; red, blue, purple; a spirit; a splash … free from taint, dependence, soilure of humanity or care for one’s kind; something rash, ridiculous… ecstasy — it’s ecstasy that matters. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#life

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#angel #damnation #ecstasy #love #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

The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral. ↗

— George Steiner

#ecstasy #whisper #grammar

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy. ↗

— Clive Bell

#art #ecstasy #emotion #forms #inexhaustible

Poetry for me is as much a spiritual practice as sexual ecstasy is. ↗

— James Broughton

#me #much #poetry #practice #sexual

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

#ecstasy #feel #i #i feel #me

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest. ↗

— Simone Weil

#ecstasy #fullest #highest

Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#escape #freedom #intoxication #reality #freedom

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy. ↗

— Anais Nin

#ecstasy #i #images #joy #just