Words matter. These are the best Elation Quotes from famous people such as Agnes Repplier, Amy Lowell, Edward Hopper, Joan Jett, Paloma Faith, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
You follow any family around, you’re going to see elation, you’re going to see disharmony.
You feel a sense of elation seeing yourself on a billboard.
The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there’s a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation.
The mere existence of ‘Buffy’ proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commercialism can produce great art. Complex and evolving characters. Playful language. Joy and sorrow, pathos and elation. Episodes that dare to be different – to tell stories in silence or in song. Big themes and terrible choices.
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.
Real elation is when you feel you could touch a star without standing on tiptoe.
Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together.
When I was growing up, I’d study for days trying to get good grades. When I’d get an ‘A,’ I’d feel elation for about 30 seconds, and then a feeling of emptiness.
Running a marathon is appealing to runners for many reasons. It’s epic! A real test for your mind and body and a challenge that truly fills you with complete elation when you cross the finish line. But it is in no way a trivial undertaking.
To experience the unique sense of elation that you have when your child is sleeping on your chest in an incomparable emotion.
I do know that whenever a player hits the ball out of the park, I have a sense of elation. I feel as if I had done it.
That’s what’s great about the horror genre is that you’re getting a load of people together in the cinema at the same place and the same time, having them all experience extreme fear and come out alive at the end. It’s an uplifting experience, and there’s a sense of elation.
In ’08, Barrack Obama was famously elected president. Even though I’d supported McCain and dreaded what I feared Barrack might do, I felt a surge of elation when the networks announced he’d won. I really hadn’t thought the U.S. would go for an African-American for a decade or so.
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.
With each song, I’m trying to go after that feeling of elation, of euphoria. It’s not the only feeling in the world; it’s just the one I thought I should try to focus on and find the most effective way of getting there.
I was 14 and madly in love for the first time. He was 21. He made me suddenly, unaccustomedly beautiful with his kisses and mix tapes. During the year of elation and longing, he never mentioned that he had a girlfriend who lived across the street.
I think the mixture of pressure and elation after winning the world title took some getting used to and that impacted on my personal life big-time.
The period that directly follows the dissolution of a long term relationship is extremely volatile, with emotions running the gamut from misery to elation to relief to terror.
I look and there’s our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they’re brothers and sisters, man. They’re brothers and sisters and it’s a sight for elation.
