Elation – Quotes

So many more cycles

So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it’s over. Elizabeth Wurtzel

Praise with elation Praise every

Praise with elation Praise every morning Spring’s re-creation Of the First Day! Eleanor Farjeon

There is a sort

There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house. Edward Hopper

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome … Read more

I don\’t know what

I don’t know what other singers feel when they articulate lyrics, but being an 18-karat manic-depressive and having lived a life of violent emotional contradictions, I have an overacute capacity for sadness as well as elation. Frank Sinatra

Gatsby turned out all

Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men. F. Scott Fitzgerald

Real elation is when

Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe. Doug Larson

People who have lived

People who have lived through a war know that as it approaches, an at first secret, unacknowledged, elation begins, as if an almost inaudible drum is beating … an awful, illicit, violent excitement is abroad. Then the elation becomes too strong to be ignored or overlooked: then everyone is possessed by it. Doris Lessing

The time will come

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome. Derek Walcott

Love After Love The

Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to … Read more