Elation Quotes

• When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Qualities

• 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
  • Mad
  • Drunk
  • Insane

• There's a feeling of elation that comes after getting off stage and then there's a feeling of utter sadness that comes after getting off the stage.

  

  Neve Campbell
  • Feeling
  • Stage
  • Sadness

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

  

  Amy Lowell
  • Happiness
  • Stagnation
  • Elation

• The anticipation and dread he felt at seeing her was also a kind of sensual pleasure, and surrounding it, like an embrace, was a general elation--it might hurt, it was horribly inconvenient, no good might come of it, but he had found out for himself what it was to be in love, and it thrilled him.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Good
  • Hurt
  • Sensual

• If I am more alive because love burns and chars me, as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation, it's that he who lays me low is my salvation, and invigorates the more, the more he scars me.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Love
  • Salvation
  • Scars

• Emily was feeling the elation of conscientious hosts when they can temporarily escape a ubiquitous houseguest.

  

  Carol Bly
  • Feelings
  • Host
  • Hospitality

• The aggravated agony of depression is terrifying, and elation, its nonidentical twin sister, is even more terrifying-attractive as she may be for a moment. You are grandiose beyond the reality of your creativity.

  

  Joshua Logan
  • Reality
  • Creativity
  • Elation