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Ecstasy Quotes by Famous Authors

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1. “There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.”

Jack Kerouac

Blessedness, Eternity, Ecstasy, Belief, Universal Joy

2. “As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.”

Jack Kerouac

Addiction, Mind, Ecstasy, Age, Escape

3. “Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.”

John Milton

Joy, Freedom, Ecstasy, Nature, Human Experience

4. “In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.”

T.S. Eliot

Light, Ecstasy, Pain, Human Nature, Emotional Fatigue, Existential Observation

5. “The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.”

Simone Weil

Ecstasy, Attention, Mindfulness, Consciousness, Peak Experience, Mental Focus

6. “Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.”

William Butler Yeats

Cosmic Wonder, Vast Perspective, Soulful Reflection, Ecstasy, Universe, Imagination

7. “Her Hair O tumble to the collarbone, O fleece, O locks, O fragrance full of “I don’t care,” what ecstasy! To stuff a gloomy place with all I know is rife within this mass, I’ll shake it like a kerchief in the air.”

Charles Baudelaire

Hair Ecstasy, Gloomy Place, Poetic Expression, Hair, Ecstasy

8. “As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.”

Charles Baudelaire

Childhood Contradictions, Horror And Ecstasy, Poetic Feelings, Life, Horror, Ecstasy

9. “You see, people read to be amused, to pass the time, I never read to be instructed; I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic. I’m always looking for the author who can take me out of myself.”

Henry Miller

Reading, Escape, Ecstasy, Literature, Inspiration, Knowledge

10. “I had moment of ecstasy and I sang with burning sparks. I sang of the Equator, her red-feathered legs and the islands dropping out of sight. But nobody heard.”

Henry Miller

Ecstasy, Creativity, Expression, Passion, Isolation, Art

11. “I read to be taken out of myself, to become ecstatic.”

Henry Miller

Reading Escape, Ecstatic Transformation, Literary Journey, Reading, Escape, Ecstasy

12. “One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green – one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Virginal Green, Life Ecstasy, Nature Touch, Nature, Life, Ecstasy

13. “The man in ecstasy and the man drowning – both throw up their arms. The first to signify harmony, the second to signify strife with the elements.”

Franz Kafka

Ecstasy, Drowning, Harmony, Struggle, Emotion, Life

14. “Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.”

Khalil Gibran

Beauty Ecstasy, Soul Enchantment, Heart Passion, Beauty, Ecstasy, Passion