Rapture Quotes - Page 9

• We took off our clothes, and we were basically in a sphere of love and light and warmth, and the rest of the world disappeared. It was better than I ever could have dreamed, it was that thing I had been looking for, that love mixed with the rapture of sex.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Sex, Light, Clothes

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• My own lov'd light,
  That very soft and solemn spirit worships,
  That lovers love so well--strange joy is thine,
  Whose influence o'er all tides of soul hath power,
  Who lend'st thy light to rapture and despair;
  The glow of hope and wan hue of sick fancy
  Alike reflect thy rays: alike thou lightest
  The path of meeting or of parting love--
  Alike on mingling or on breaking hearts
  Thou smil'st in throned beauty!

  Charles Robert Maturin

  Heart, Moon, Light

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• A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle: and patriotism is loyalty to that principle. In poetic minds and in popular enthusiasm this feeling becomes closely associated with the soil and the symbols of the country. But the secret sanctification of the soil and the symbol is the idea which they represent, and this idea the patriot worships through the name and the symbol, as a lover kisses with rapture the glove of his mistress and wears a lock of her hair upon his heart.

  George William Curtis

  Loyalty, Country, Heart

  George William Curtis (1894). “On the principles and character of American institutions, and the duties of American citizens, 1856-1891”

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• Though the heart wear the garment of its sorrow And be not happy like a naked star, Yet from the thought of peace some peace we borrow, Some rapture from the rapture felt afar.

  George Santayana

  Peace, Stars, Heart

  George Santayana (1979). “The complete poems of George Santayana: a critical edition”, Associated Univ Pr

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• Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of bread?

  Louis Untermeyer

  Home, Hymns, Miracle

  "Food and Drink".

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• A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.

  Gertrude Stein

  Circles, Deals

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.141, Taylor & Francis

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• Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Church, Care, Holy

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• If gratitude, when exerted towards another, naturally produces a very pleasing sensation in the mind of a grateful man, it exalts the soul into rapture when it is employed on this great object of gratitude to the beneficent Being who has given us everything we already possess, and from whom we expect everything we yet hope for.

  Joseph Addison

  Thank You, Gratitude, Grateful

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: with a biographical and critical preface, and explanatory notes”, p.390

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• Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.

  Emma Lazarus

  Pain

  Emma Lazarus (2002). “Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings”, p.178, Broadview Press

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• Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes The finish'd sense: while stung with keen desire The madd'ning boy his bashful fetters bursts; And, urg'd with secret flames, the riper maid, Conscious and shy, betrays her smarting breast.

  John Armstrong

  Summer, Boys, Flames

  John Armstrong, “The Oeconomy Of Love”

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• Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.

  Edmund Waller

  Muse, Conqueror

  'Panegyric to My Lord Protector' 46

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• If Bible Christianity is to survive the present world upheaval, we shall need to have a fresh revelation of the greatness and the beauty of Jesus.... He alone can raise our cold hearts to rapture and restore again the art of true worship.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Jesus, Art, Prayer

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• When the starry sky, a vista of open seas, or a stained-glass window shedding purple beams fascinate me, there is a cluster of meaning, of colors, of words, of caresses, there are light touches, scents, sighs, cadences that arise, shroud me, carry me away, and sweep me beyond the things I see, hear, or think, The "sublime" object dissolves in the raptures of a bottomless memory. It is such a memory, which, from stopping point to stopping point, remembrance to remembrance, love to love, transfers that object to the refulgent point of the dazzlement in which I stray in order to be.

  Julia Kristeva

  Memories, Thinking, Sky

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• Music is a means capable of expressing dark dramatism and pure rapture, suffering and ecstasy, fiery and cold fury, melancholy and wild merriment – and the subtlest nuances and interplay of these feelings which words are powerless to express and which are unattainable in painting and sculpture.

  Dmitri Shostakovich

  Mean, Dark, Feelings

  Translated in Music Journal, p. 37, September, 1965.

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• Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die--die, sweetly die--into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in your turn, will draw near to others, and learn the rapture of that cruelty, which yet is love; so, for a while, seek to know no more of me and mine, but trust me with all your loving spirit.

  Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

  Heart, Thinking, Law

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• There is something called the rapture of the deep, and it refers to what happens when a deep-sea diver spends too much time at the bottom of the ocean and can't tell which way is up. When he surfaces, he's liable to have a condition called the bends, where the body can't adapt to the oxygen levels in the atmosphere. All of this happens to me when I surface from a great book.

  Nora Ephron

  Ocean, Book, Oxygen

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• If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

  Sydney Smith

  Music, Earth, Ifs

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• Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs.

  Joan Rivers

  Powerful, Air, Finals

  FaceBook post by Joan Rivers from May 25, 2011

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• A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Good Life, Feelings, Throwing

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.5, Faber & Faber

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• Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

  Joseph Addison

  Music, Mind, Praise

  "The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added, Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian Revelation".

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• The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is.  They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself.  This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole.  The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth.  It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other.

  Aleister Crowley

  Passion, Evil, Unity

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• I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved.

  Nora Ephron

  Memories, Book, Reading

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• Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love came and set my soul free. Once I fretted and beat myself against the wall that shut me in. My life was without a past or future, and death a consummation devoutly to be wished. But a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hands that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped up with the rapture of living. I do not know the meaning of the darkness, but I have learned the overcoming of it.

  Helen Keller

  Love, Wall, Heart

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.3, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Anybody who wants religion is welcome to it, as far as I'm concerned--I support your right to enjoy it. However, I would appreciate it if you exhibited more respect for the rights of those people who do not wish to share your dogma, rapture, or necrodestination.

  Frank Zappa

  Inspirational, Life, Rights

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• I don’t think there is any such thing as an ordinary mortal. Everybody has his own possibility of rapture in the experience of life. All he has to do is recognize it and then cultivate it and get going with it. I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I’ve never met an ordinary man, woman, or child.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Children, Women

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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