Elation Quotes
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It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
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More Elation Quotes
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
william r. alger— "The Sober Drunkenness", p. 167.
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.
herbert hoover— On losing the presidency to Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
— "The Sober Drunkenness", p. 167. (1865 edition)
In the Garden of Eden sat Adam, Disporting himself with his madam, She was filled with elation , For in all of creation , There was only one man – and she had’m.
— In p.12 (All Church Humour)
Cynicism ... is a withdrawal from the world into blank isolation, while Stoicism is the withdrawal into an inner life , which forms to its votaries an object of the highest enthusiasm. Hence the elation, often hyperbolical, which tinges the Stoical austerity; hence the attractiveness of the doctrine and its spread over the world.
— Alexander Grant, Essay The Ancient Stoics, in Oxford Effays (1858), p. 88
Beware the deadly fumes of that insane elation Which rises from the cup of mad impiety, And go, get drunk with that divine intoxication Which is more sober far than all sobriety.
— William R. Alger, "The Sober Drunkenness", Poetry of the Orient (1865), p. 167.
Hendrix had conjured – with his vision and sense of sound, his personality and genius – the most extraordinary guitar music ever played, the most remarkable sound-scape ever created; of that there is little argument. Opinion varies only over the effect his music has on people: elation, fear, sexual stimulation, sublimation, disgust – all or none of these – but always drop-jawed amazement.
— Ed Vulliamy, in "Jimi Hendrix: 'You never told me he was that good'" in The Guardian (8 August 2010)
