Rapture Quotes - Page 4

• Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.

  Mary Roach

  Disappear, Thirty, Graves

  Mary Roach (2011). “Packing for Mars”, p.58, Oneworld Publications

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• You cannot imagine the wild enthusiasm that these two men created in Vienna. Newspapers went into raptures over each new waltz, and innumerable articles appeared about Lanner and Strauss.

  Eduard Hanslick

  Men, Two, Vienna

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• By inner experience I understand that which one usually calls mystical experience: the states of ecstasy, of rapture, at least of meditated emotion. But I am thinking less of confessional experience, to which one has had to adhere up to now, that of an experience laid bare, free of ties, even of an origin, of any confession whatever. This is why I don't like the word mystical.

  Georges Bataille

  Thinking, Mystical Experiences, Ties

  Georges Bataille (1988). “Inner Experience”, p.3, SUNY Press

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• Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.

  William Hazlitt

  Home, Night, Rustic

  William Hazlitt, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd, Charles Lamb (1836). “Literary Remains of the Late William Hazlitt: With Notice of His Life”, p.246

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• In an age in which economists take for granted that people equate well-being with consumption, increasing numbers of people seem willing to trade certain freedoms and material comforts for a sense of immutable order and the rapture of faith.

  Eugene Linden

  Order, Numbers, People

  Eugene Linden (1998). “The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability”

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• If science exterminates a disease which has been working for God, it is God that gets the credit and all the pulpits break into grateful advertising-raptures and call attention to how good he is. Yes, he has done it. Perhaps he waited a thousand years before doing it. They forget to say that he is the slowest mover in the universe, that his Eye That Never Sleeps, might as well, since it takes a century to see what any other eye can see in a week.

  Mark Twain

  Grateful, Sleep, Eye

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• The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Religious, Class, Luxury

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Timequake”, p.74, Random House

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• What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.

  George Eliot

  Art, Children, Ocean

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.35, Xist Publishing

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• They deceive themselves who believe that union with God consists in ecstasies or raptures, and in the enjoyment of Him. For it consists in nothing except the surrender and subjection of our will - with our thoughts, words and actions - to the will of God.

  Teresa of Avila

  Believe, Unions, Action

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• Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal!

  Petrarch

  Eye, Too Much, Delight

  Francesco Petrarch (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Francesco Petrarch (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• It is like a woman indeed
  To take rapture before the fact is shown for true.
  They believe too easily, are too quick to shift
  From ground to ground; and swift indeed
  The rumor voiced by a woman dies again.

  Aeschylus

  Believe, Rumor, Facts

  Aeschylus (1954). “Aeschylus: Oresteia; Agamemnon, The libation bearers, The Eumenides, translated and with an introd. by R. Lattimore”

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• But I am not sure it would contain any short stories. For the short story is a minor art, and it must content itself with moving, exciting and amusing the reader. ...I do not think that there is any (short story) that will give the reader that thrill, that rapture, that fruitful energy which great art can produce.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Art, Moving, Thinking

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• Act! the wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants. Mark with deeds the vanishing traces of swiftrolling time. Let us make happy the circle around us,--be useful as much as we may. For that fills up with soft rapture, that dissolves the dark clouds of the day!

  Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis

  Wise, Dark, Circles

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• Scuba diving, from the beginning, had an air of dangerous allure. Every landlocked schoolboy knew of its intriguing hazards: the bends, which caused a diver's veins to fizz with carbonated blood until he died a ghastly, percolating death; and rapture of the deep, which took away his reason, filled his heart with false contentment, and drew him down into the ocean gloom.

  Stephen Harrigan

  Ocean, Heart, Air

  Stephen Harrigan (2015). “Water and Light: A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef”, p.7, University of Texas Press

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• We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive.

  Joseph Campbell

  Alive, Seeking

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• The poem comes in the form of a blessing, like rapture breaking on the mind.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Blessing, Mind, Form

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• Enough of self, that darling luscious theme,
  O'er which philosophers in raptures dream;
  Of which with seeming disregard they write
  Then prizing most when most they seem to slight.

  Charles Churchill

  Dream, Writing, Self

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.163

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• A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit
  With the same spirit that its author writ:
  Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find
  Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

  Alexander Pope

  Moving, Perfect, Judging

  Alexander Pope (1804). “A Select Collection of Poems: Viz. An Essay on Man; An Essay on Criticism; The Messiah; &c. &c. ... To which are Prefixed, An Account of the Life of the Author”, p.105

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• Golden volumes! richest treasures,
  Objects of delicious pleasures!
  You my eyes rejoicing please,
  You my hand in rapture seize!
  Brilliant wits and musing sages,
  Lights who beam'd through many ages!
  Left to your conscious leaves their story,
  And dared to trust you with their glory;
  And now their hope of fame achiev'd,
  Dear volumes! you have not deceived!

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Book, Eye, Light

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• Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.

  Arthur Koestler

  May, Hallucinations, Nervous

  Arthur Koestler (1981). “Kaleidoscope: essays from Drinkers of infinity, and The heel of Achilles and later pieces and stories”, Vintage

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• Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

  John D. Voelker

  Loneliness, Rivers, Lakes

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• But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!"

  Florence Earle Coates

  Spring, Sky, Larks

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• The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom
  to receive the pleasant beams of the sun’s glory; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly, in the midst of other
  flowers round about; all in like manner opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Sweet, Spring

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1835). “The works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.12

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• Take my hand and grow young with me. Don't rush. Don't sleep. Be a beginner. Light the candles. Keep the fire. Dare to love someone. Tell yourself the truth. Stay inside the rapture.

  Marlena De Blasi

  Sleep, Fire, Light

  Marlena de Blasi (2013). “A Thousand Days in Venice: An Unexpected Romance”, p.63, Algonquin Books

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• Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name.

  Thomas Campbell

  Names, Grace, Magic

  Thomas Campbell, Sir John Gilbert (1862). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell. A New Edition, with Illustrations by John Gilbert. [With a Portrait.]”, p.16

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