Franz Kafka

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Novelist

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

Indian Philosopher

Stephen Hough

Unlike sport, music is not about winning or keeping fit or promoting your town or school; it's about celebrating, to a level approaching ecstasy, the deepest human longings.

British Composer

Anais Nin

I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.

American Author

W. Somerset Maugham

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

British Playwright

Julie Newmar

Some people have dogs... I like leaves. I like plants, and I like flowers too. Ecstasy is big in my life.

American Actress

Walter Pater

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.

English Critic

Emily Dickinson

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

American Poet

Honore de Balzac

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.

French Novelist

Wavy Gravy

I am in total ecstasy with where my life is now.

American Activist

Used to express the highest level of happiness, often in special or unique occasions.

Peak Happiness

Highlights a moment where emotions are so strong that they dominate one's reaction.

Overwhelming Emotion

Ecstasy might refer to an overwhelming emotion, not strictly positive—context matters.

Not Always Positive

Refers to the illicit drug MDMA, commonly associated with dance and music events.

Party Drug Context

Indicates the drug's effect of heightened energy and happiness.

Euphoric Effect

Remember that ecstasy in this context is referring to an illegal drug, not just a feeling.

Illegal Substance

Can describe a trance-like state, usually in religious or spiritual contexts.

Mystical Experience

Often used when someone is deeply moved or inspired by art, music, or beauty.

Artistic Appreciation

Reflects a very powerful and often short-lived burst of joy.

Intense Joy

 and that was the most compassionate thing I can do if you get all those parts aligned yes I think you could probably be feeling the emotion of love but again then we have to talk about well-being in a larger context you know it's all of us in this together it's not one man feeling ecstasy and then blowing

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 ecstasy users my brother was no hero he loved the juice of illegal activity he lied to me for years and telling me was out of the business his death forced his neighbors to evacuate their homes for two days and that is inexcusable it's hard when someone you've loved your entire life has passions that are

Prohibition criminalizes...

 The sow doesn't look to be in the throes of ecstasy." And she said, you can't make that conclusion, because animals don't register pain or pleasure on their faces in the same way that we do. Pigs, for example, are more like dogs. They use the upper half of the face; the ears are very expressive.

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 where life was fantastic. It might have been at the moment of some great, creative inspiration you might have had when you just entered this flow stage. Or when you understood something you had never done before. Or perhaps in the ecstasy of romantic love.

Nick Bostrom: Humanity's...

 or the high you get from a beautiful film when it sucks you into its wonderland, or the orgasmic ecstasy of falling in love, ineffability, magical transience spaces of mind that were characterized by feelings of selflessness and timelessness.

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 we love in order to quench our physical and psychological desires. Humans are designed to procreate, but without the ecstasy of passionate love, sex is unsatisfying. Our fear of the cold, cruel world tempts us to build hard shells

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 mean you feel that sacredness when you go into the building and especially into the shrine itself you you see the pilgrims who are in ecstasy as they go in and they're seeing something that they believed in all their life and and

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 moments of extreme compassion static to the feelings of others it makes us feel less alone it makes us feel like we're having some kind of communion with the other and there's an ecstasy that comes with smashing our sense of

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 They were the first mortals ever to fly. While Daedalus stayed carefully to the midway course, Icarus was overwhelmed with the ecstasy of flight and overcome with the feeling of divine power that came with it.

The myth of Icarus and...

 is really about their ecstasies, not about their everyday life. We know the temples they built, where people could come to experience a different reality. We know about the circuses, the arenas, the theaters.