Euphoria Quotes

• 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, Being Happy, Differences

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• There is a kind of euphoria of grief, a degree of madness.

  Nigella Lawson

  Grief, Degrees, Madness

  "Nigella Lawson: Who'd be a goddess?" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2004.

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• When you ride the wave, the thrill is so exhilarating that you forget everything else. You live in the moment where nothing else matters, so intent on riding the wave perfectly that you and the wave become one. Pain and worry disappear, replaced by euphoria, akin to flow. Similarly, when giving empathy, you want to strive for this kind of total presence for the person you are listening to.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Pain, Forget Everything, Giving

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• The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool. Yet people sometimes do just this. They work hard at a task and expect some special euphoria at the end. But when they achieve success and find only moderate and short-lived pleasure, they ask is that all there is? They devalue their accomplishments as a striving after wind. We can call this the progress principle: Pleasure comes more from making progress toward goals than from achieving them.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Happiness, Hard Work, Wind

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• Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!

  Bill Watterson

  Demand, Enough, Ecstasy

  "There's Treasure Everywhere". Book by Bill Watterson, March 1996.

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• Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

  Stanislav Grof

  Vision, Encounters, Transition

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• There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

  Ed McMahon

  Attitude, Night, Planning

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• The true, or higher part of the self is always seeking the state that mystics talk about, the state in which we are filled with a universal love and a peaceful euphoria.

  James Redfield

  Self, Inner Peace, Peaceful

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• Sometimes I find that music is so much more attractive than love. I don’t know… It’s like some kind of euphoria, that love can’t bring to you.

  Florence Welch

  Kind, Sometimes, Attractive

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• That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

  Alan Parsons

  Trying, Rooms, Natural

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee

  War, Bihar, Cold

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India. Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. Publications Division (2004). “Towards a new world: defining moments”

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• We know that material things don't offer contentment, but we still buy more-more of the props and gadgets our culture tells us we must have in order to be happy and "happening." Our addiction to consumption distracts us from seeing that we are disconnected from ourselves, from our truth and from one another. Any euphoria we gain from our material gains is fleeting at best.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Order, Addiction, Contentment

  Susan L. Taylor (2010). “Lessons in Living”, p.149, Anchor

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• My motivational music is any music that helps me escape. There are certain records that take you to euphoria, when you're partying and havin' a good time, dancin' with a couple people.

  Pitbull

  Couple, Party, People

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• Clearly it is not the lovelorn sufferer who seeks solace in chocolate, but rather the chocolate-deprived individual, who, desperate, seeks in mere love a pale approximation of bittersweet euphoria.

  Sandra Boynton

  Food, Cooking, Chocolate

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• Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.

  Alan Greenspan

  Fall, Looks, Causes

  "Q&A with Alan Greenspan: ‘Did we make mistakes? You bet’". Interview with Martin Crutsinger, www.seattletimes.com. October 21, 2013.

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• I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

  Gunter Grass

  Seductive, Nonsense, Found

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• I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Insanity, Heaven, Getting High

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• Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

  Stephen Fry

  Eight, Tone, Comedy

  Stephen Fry (2011). “Moab Is My Washpot”, p.226, Soho Press

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• Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer.

  Mark Z. Danielewski

  Life, Latin, Mean

  Mark Z. Danielewski (2000). “Mark Z. Danielewski's House of leaves”

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• Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last.

  Thomas Sowell

  Long, Depth, Height

  Thomas Sowell (2013). “Ever Wonder Why?: and Other Controversial Essays”, p.334, Hoover Press

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• For me, ‘Dog Days’ symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed.

  Florence Welch

  Running, Dog, Eye

  "Florence and the Machine's 'GMA' Concert: Five Fun Florence Facts" by Katie Kindelan, abcnews.go.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I don't want to get too dippy about all this. If you take the view of the scientist and everything is in a state of vibration, then every note is a vibration, which has a certain frequency, and you know that if you put 40 beats into a frequency it's going to be the same note every time. You take that into infrasound and people can be made to be sick, actually killed. Taking it the other way, not to be too depressing, what about euphoria, etc., and what about consciousness being totally... no, I won't go into that one. Time warps.

  Jimmy Page

  Depressing, Views, People

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• There is a terrible sameness to the euphoria of alcohol and the euphoria of metaphor.

  John Cheever

  Alcohol, Metaphor, Terrible

  John Cheever (1989). “The Letters of John Cheever”, Touchstone Books

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• Misery alternates with euphoria.

  Patricia Gaffney

  Misery

  Patricia Gaffney (2009). “The Saving Graces: A Novel”, p.104, Harper Collins

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• [T]he regime of diversions, surrogates, and tranquilizers that pass for today's 'distractions' and 'amusements' does not yet allow the modern woman to foresee the crisis that awaits her when she recognizes how meaningless are those male occupations for which she has fought, when the illusions and the euphoria of her conquests vanish, and when she realizes that, given the climate of dissolution, family and children can no longer give her a sense of satisfaction in life.

  Julius Evola

  Children, Satisfaction In Life, Giving

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