Rapture Quotes - Page 3

• Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.

  Amy Lowell

  Self, Sorrow, Experience

  Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

  Tom Perrotta

  Reading, College, Ideas

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• There is eloquence in the tongueless wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved singing to you alone.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Patriotic, Eye, Wind

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.1818, Delphi Classics

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• Days come and ages pass, and it is ever he who moves my heart in many a name, in many a guise, in many a rapture of joy and of sorrow. Deliverance is not for me in renunciation. I feel the embrace of freedom in a thousand bonds of delight.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Moving, Heart, Names

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.39, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• ... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen every time or even every other time, and when it does happen, I am truly beside myself.

  Nora Ephron

  Book, Doe, Wonderful

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• A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.

  Andrew Sean Greer

  Heart, Night, Imagination

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• I have been running so sweaty my whole life
  Urgent for a finish line
  And I have been missing the rapture this whole time
  Of being forever incomplete

  Alanis Morissette

  Inspirational, Running, Forever

  Song: Incomplete, Album: Flavors Of Entanglement, 2008

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• He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch with the world around him, absorbed completely in conjuring up knowledge from all its sources.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Memories, World, Lost

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.19, Dell

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• Confuse not love with the raptures of possession, which bring the cruellest of sufferings. For, notwithstanding the general opinion, love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Opposites, Suffering, Doe

  "'Citadelle' ('The Wisdom of the Sands')". Book by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1948.

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• Change follows change in us, almost without transition; we pass from blissful rapture to sobbing woe; a single step divides our sublimest ecstasies from the darkest depth of spiritual despondency.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Spiritual, Woe, Steps

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• Death must obliterate all memories and affections and ideas and laws, or the awakening in the next world will be amid the welcomes, and loves and raptures of those who left us with tearful farewells, and with dying promises that they would wait to welcomes us when we should arrive. And so they do. Not sorrowfully, not anxiously, but lovingly, they wait to bid us welcome.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Memories, Farewell, Law

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 305), 1895.

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• Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy - the joy of being Salvador Dalí - and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things this Salvador Dalí is going to accomplish today?

  Salvador Dali

  Morning, Joy, Wake Up

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• Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain;
  But all through Love in time is healed again.

  Charles Godfrey Leland

  Life, Pain, Healed

  Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.29

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• gardening is a madness and a rapture.

  Faith Sullivan

  Gardening, Madness

  Faith Sullivan (2012). “What a Woman Must Do: A Novel”, p.11, Random House

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• I battered the cordons around me
  And cradled my wings on the breeze,
  Then soared to the uttermost reaches
  With rapture, with power, with ease!

  Georgia Douglas Johnson

  Wings, Ease, Breeze

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• The glow of inspiration warms us; this holy rapture springs from the seeds of the Divine mind sown in man.

  Ovid

  Spring, Inspiration, Men

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• Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

  William Maxwell

  Book, Reading, Doors

  William Maxwell (1989). “The outermost dream: essays and reviews”, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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• The glow of inspiration warms us; it is a holy rapture.

  Ovid

  Life, Inspiration, Holy

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• The great loneliness- like the loneliness a caterpillar endures when she wraps herself in a silky shroud and begins the long transformation from chrysalis to butterfly. It seems we too must go through such a time, when life as we have known it is over- when being a caterpillar feels somehow false and yet we don’t know who we are supposed to become. All we know is that something bigger is calling us to change. And though we must make the journey alone, and even if suffering is our only companion, soon enough we will become a butterfly, soon enough we will taste the rapture of being alive.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Life, Change, Loneliness

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• Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Nice, Book

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.122, Anchor

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• The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty. To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest.

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Stars, Glowing, Sky

  John Godfrey Saxe (1866). “The Masquerade: and other poems”, p.25

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• Sometimes I feel like I'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst.

  Alan Ball

  Beauty, Wisdom, Heart

  Alan Ball, Sam Mendes (1999). “American Beauty: The Shooting Script”, Newmarket Press

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• I want you to sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.

  William Parrish

  "Fictional character: Anthony Hopkins". "Meet Joe Black", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

  Rumi

  Life, Light, Devotion To God

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• You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.

  Lord Byron

  Marriage, Beautiful, Lonely

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