Definition of Ecstasy

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Ecstasy

The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion; an extraordinary elevation of the spirit, as when the soul, unconscious of sensible objects, is supposed to contemplate heavenly mysteries.

Excessive and overmastering joy or enthusiasm; rapture; enthusiastic delight.

Violent distraction of mind; violent emotion; excessive grief of anxiety; insanity; madness.

A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, of voluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected.

To fill ecstasy, or with rapture or enthusiasm.

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Ecstasy Quotations

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.
Anais Nin

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

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.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid.
Orson Welles

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.
Franz Kafka

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
Franz Kafka

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!
Robert Browning

Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
Honore De Balzac

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert Hubbard

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
Charles Baudelaire

Ecstasy Translations

ecstasy in Afrikaans is ekstase
ecstasy in Dutch is vervoering, geestvervoering, extase
ecstasy in Norwegian is ekstase
ecstasy in Swedish is extas

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