Quotes: Ecstasy

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

Charles Baudelaire

French poet and critic (1821-1867)

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Norma Shearer

Canadian-American actress (1902-1983)

After an eternity of seeking the sudden threshold of seeing and finding leaves one filled with a strange paradox of ecstasy and grief. I was born to see.

Joy Page

American actress (1924-2008)

Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all.

Jean Genet

French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist (1910-1986)

I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.

Hedy Lamarr

Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping (1914-2000)

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.

Orson Welles

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Indian spiritual philosopher, mystic, speaker and writer (1895-1986)

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

John Updike

American novelist, poet (1932-2009)

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Elbert Hubbard

American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher

And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.

Hart Crane

American writer (1899-1932)

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