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  • Writing itself is one of the great, free human activities. There is scope for individuality, and elation, and discovery. In writing, for the person who follows with trust and forgiveness what occurs to him, the world remains always ready and deep, an inexhaustible environment, with the combined vividness of an actuality and flexibility of a dream. Working back and forth between experience and thought, writers have more than space and time can offer. They have the whole unexplored realm of human vision.

    Dream   Writing   Space  
  • It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

    Agnes Repplier (2009). “American Austen: The Forgotten Writing of Agnes Repplier”, Intercollegiate Studies Institute
  • It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.

  • The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it's elation, it's mood swings, and you're killing all that when you take the drug.

  • So many more cycles of elation of the first kiss, and devastation when it's over.

    Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.267, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Fatherhood is the unending imperfect task of turning yourself into your dad while secretly maintaining the unbridled elation of your boyhood

    Dad   Fatherhood   Tasks  
  • Art heightens the sense of humanity. It gives an elation to feeling which is supernatural...A million sunsets will not spur us on towards civilization. It requires Art to evoke into consciousness the finite perfections which lie ready for human achievement.

    Art   Lying   Sunset  
  • 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.

    Strong   War   People  
    Doris Lessing (2013). “Prisons We Choose to Live Inside”, p.10, Harper Collins
  • Elation and pain are experiences that make you realize youre alive. Thank God you feel them; otherwise youd be numb.

    Pain   Thank God   Alive  
  • Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

    Amy Lowell (2009). “Sword Blades and Poppy Seed”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Work is the vessel into which we pour so much of ourselves hope and disappointment, elation and rage, satisfaction and frustration. Yet any damp display of these emotions is seen as weakness.

    Lisa Belkin (2003). “Life's Work: Confessions of an Unbalanced Mom”, p.105, Simon and Schuster
  • There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness, and terror involved in this kind of madness. When you're high it's tremendous. The ideas and feelings are fast and frequent like shooting stars....But, somewhere, this changes. The fast ideas are far too fast, and there are far too many; overwhelming confusion replaces clarity. Everything previously moving with the grain is now against-you are irritable, angry, frightened, uncontrollable....It will never end, for madness carves its own reality.

    Depression   Stars   Pain  
  • An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.

  • Happiness, to some, is elation; to others it is mere stagnation.

  • So far as the personal side is concerned, the victory was to him who lost and the defeat to him who won. I can say that never in the last fifteen years have I had the peace of mind that I have since the election. I have almost a feeling of elation.

    Years   Feelings   Mind  
    "Hoover Off the Record". Book by Theodore Joslin, 1934.
  • When people hit on feeling a certain melancholy or elation, it's a really exciting moment. I think making that connection is the goal, and what makes something great.

    Thinking   People   Goal  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself free from everything but what I could carry about me. Like children, portmanteaus and trunks are hostages to fortune.

    Herbert Spencer (1904). “An Autobiography: By Herbert Spencer”
  • Freud's theory was that when a joke opens a window and all those bats and bogeymen fly out, you get a marvellous feeling of relief and elation. The trouble with Freud is that he never had to play the old Glasgow Empire on a Saturday night after Rangers and Celtic had both lost.

    Funny   Humor   Night  
    1965 Television interview, discussing Freud's theory of catharsis through laughter, whereby jokes produce a feeling of elation.
  • Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the race from every external condition that would not be beneficial for the elation of man to the pristine greatness of his original cosmic destiny.

    Children   Real   Blessed  
  • Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.

    Sunshine   Race   Brain  
    Robert Fitzgerald, Ed Dowling, Bill W. (1995). “The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters”, p.135, Hazelden Publishing
  • 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 (2014). “The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013”, p.227, Macmillan
  • I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.

    Thinking   Sea   Ducks  
  • You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.

  • About my method of work: first it’s the state of mind—Elation (joy).

    Joy   Mind   Elation  
  • There are days when simply seeing feels like happiness itself....You feel so rich, the elation seems almost excessive and you want to share it

    Elation   Want   Rich  
  • It was a grand old house, the Ayemenem House, but aloof-looking. As though it had little to do with the people who lived in it. Like an old man with rheumy eyes watching children play, seeing only transience in their shrill elation and their whole-hearted commitment to life.

  • With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.

    Angel   Light   Rose  
    Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black”, p.93, Bright Skylark Book Products
  • To the winner, there is 100-percent elation, 100-percent fun, 100-percent laughter; and yet the only thing left to the loser is resolution and determination.

    Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.232, McGraw Hill Professional
  • Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly.

  • The stockmarket is a semi-psychotic creature given to extremes of elation and despair.

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