Rapture Quotes
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The Rapture: The ultimate Republican back-up plan.
— Jon Stewart
Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.
— John D. Voelker
the euphoria of bee handling, like an altitude high or the rapture of the deep. It
— Margaret Atwood
The rapture will neutralize natural death; God's enemies will be begging for a way out of the world.
— Felix Wantang
The Rapture of the Nerds has been followed by the Resurrection of the Extremely Confused. (318)
— Charles Stross
Beauty is an expression of that rapture of being alive.
— Bill Moyers
I can't wait to make you the love of my mortal life.
— Lauren Kate
Don't wait too long. Life takes unexpected turns, and we don't always have the time we think we have.
— Sylvain Reynard
Gardening is a madness and a rapture.
— Faith Sullivan
Sing with rapture and dance like a dervish.
— William R. Parrish
We're all seeking ... the rapture of being alive.
— Joseph Campbell
Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze.
— D.H. Lawrence
Thus, we must realize that October 21, 2011 will be the final day of this earth's existence.
— Harold Camping
When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story.
— Jerry B. Jenkins
Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse.
— Charles Churchill
A great deal of beauty is rapture. A circle is a necessity. Otherwise you would see no one. We each have our circle.
— Gertrude Stein
The hospital, by necessity, may send a man home with one leg less: but it will not (in a creative rapture) send him home with one leg extra.
— G.K. Chesterton
We lose the peace of years when we hunt after the rapture of moments.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Only the soul that knows the mighty grief can know the mighty rapture. Sorrows come to stretch out spaces in the heart for joy.
— Edwin Markham
..the sense of a catastrophe perpetually invoked and avoided creates a rapture in whose depths horror and pleasure coincide...
— Michel Leiris
It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.
— Andrew Ryan
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Never give up, never give in, never give out!
— Carl Facciponte
What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it.
— Bertolt Brecht
Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.
— J.M. Coetzee
In the thread's breadth between terror and rapture lies awareness.
— Linda Robinson
He captured my heart. He loves me for who I am, not what I can bring to him.- Lucinda Price, Rapture — Lauren Kate
What moments divine , what rapture serene.
— Cole Porter
A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.
— Barbara Kingsolver
There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate.
— Victor Hugo
There is rapture in the lonely shore, by the deep sea, and music in its roar." Lord Byron *
— D.B. Patterson
Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture.
— Joseph Addison
In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die - die sweetly die - into mine.
— J. Sheridan Le Fanu
All this rapture," managed Letty, wriggling out of her mother's grasp, "is decidedly premature.
— Lauren Willig
Human beings were made for music. Its thrill and rapture are picked up almost immediately by little children
— Edward O. Wilson
Rapture is the gateway to nirvana.
— Sharon Salzberg
Walt Disney had a nuclear imagination before the advent of nuclear, some comprehension of apocalypse and rapture deep in his genes.
— Steve Erickson
It was such rapture that it was pain. She adored him.
— W. Somerset Maugham
He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid.
— Mary Renault
Life's sharpest rapture is surcease of pain.
— Emma Lazarus
What Enron was doing, what caused investors to embrace it in a rapture of baffled awe, was hiding debt.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).
— Christopher Hitchens
Seen at Liberty University: I hope the Rapture happens before my student loans are due.
— Kevin Roose
The goal of life is rapture. Art is the way we experience it.
— Joseph Campbell
Love is a delicious experience, it's the fire that consumes, it's Divine Wine, rapture for the one who drinks it.
— Samael Aun Weor
Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs.
— Joan Rivers
We ought to dance with rapture that we might be alive ... and part of the living, incarnate cosmos.
— D.H. Lawrence
It's all impermanent, and in perfect rapture
— Brian E. Miller
The greatness of poetry comes from its struggle to express the rapture of the soul in the contemplation of beauty.
— Anthony S. Maulucci
don't believe everything you read about the Rapture. In fact, don't believe most of what you read about the Rapture.
— N. T. Wright
History can be rewritten, but at what cost?
— Lauren Kate
Jesus, could you please rapture the charismaniac lady who brings her tambourine to church?
— Mark Driscoll
Gabriel caught her hand in his and pressed his open mouth to her palm. Julianne, you were never just my student. You're my soul mate. My bashert.
— Sylvain Reynard
There is no dark, darker than the distorted great light.
— Lauren Kate
It's neither and it's both. That's the perfect kind of art. Labels only detract from the artist's intention.
— Ted Dekker
The body is more than the temple of the soul. It's the grounded celebration of its rapture.
— S. Kelley Harrell
The changes have awarded me a rapture that comes only when you can no longer be lied to, when you have rejected the Dream.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
You cannot imagine my emotion behind the yew hedge ...
— Samuel Richardson
A momentary gain in one's own sense of shared despair, shared nullity, shared rapture, shared loneliness, shared broken-hearted glee;
— Michael Chabon
Like a rustic at a fair, we are full of amazement and rapture, and have no thought of going home, or that it will soon be night.
— William Hazlitt
Love leads to present rapture,-then to pain;But all through Love in time is healed again. — Charles Godfrey Leland
There are two words that send romance authors into spasms of rapture: 'Downton Abbey.'
— Teresa Medeiros
If it was bliss to be alive, to hunt was rapture.
— Barbara W. Tuchman
He sank to his knees, absolutely full of despair and sadness. For a long time, droplets of blood continued to fall into his lap.
— Phillip W. Simpson
A wise politician will never grudge a genuflexion or a rapture if it is expected of him by prevalent opinion.
— Frederick Scott Oliver
Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.
— Amy Lowell
I walk making up phrases; sit, contriving scenes; am in short in the thick of the greatest rapture known to me.
— Virginia Woolf
Its reward is in the doing,And the rapture of pursuing
Is the prize — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sir, don't make a bigger fool out of yourself because I promise you, if my car is not here when I leave service today ... just pray for rapture.
— Jevon L. Mack
If the modern world were a patient in my care... I would diagnose it suicidal." - Dr. Sofia Lamb
— John Shirley
Wishing for control is like wishing for the rapture.
— Chuck Klosterman
Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'
— Barbara Carrera
Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made miracle of bread?
— Louis Untermeyer
Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).
— William Maxwell
If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
— Sydney Smith
Until the church is holy there'll be no rapture - I don't care what theory of the rapture you have.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Even in rapture, part of the mind watches.
— Mason Cooley