Exultation Quotes

• All I wanted was what I'd already had. That exultation, that love. It was my one real home; I was a visitor everywhere else.

  

  Scott Spencer
  • Love
  • Home
  • Visitor

• While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • World
  • Pity
  • Melancholy

• The job has its grandeurs, yes. There is the exultation of arriving safely after a storm, the joy of gliding down out of the darkness of night or tempest toward a sun-drenched Alicante or Santiago; there is the swelling sense of returning to repossess one's place in life, in the miraculous garden of earth, where are trees and women and, down by the harbor, friendly little bars. When he has throttled his engine and is banking into the airport, leaving the somber cloud masses behind, what pilot does not break into song?

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Life
  • Job
  • Joy

• PATRIOTISM. 1) The inability to distinguish between the government and one's 'country'; 2) A highly praiseworthy virtue characterized by the desire to dominate and kill; 3) A feeling of exultation experienced when contemplating heaps of charred 'enemy' corpses; 4) The first, last, and perennial refuge of scoundrels.

  

  Chaz Bufe
  • Virtue
  • Patriotism
  • Refuge

• I will offer to Him both my tears and my exultation. Nothing we offer to Him will be lost.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • Lost
  • Tears
  • Exultation

• He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness, too, fullness of heart, appreciation, and many other emotions. But not joy. No, that belonged to simpler minds.

  

  Evan S. Connell
  • Joy
  • Sex
  • Emotions