Ecstasy

Ecstasy may refer to:

  • Ecstasy (emotion), a trance or trance-like state in which a person transcends normal consciousness
  • Religious ecstasy, a state of consciousness characterized by expanded spiritual awareness, visions or absolute euphoria
  • Ecstasy (philosophy), a term used to mean "outside-of-itself"
  • Ecstasy, a colloquial term for the drug MDMA

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Famous quotes containing the word ecstasy:

    In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.
    Georges Bataille (1897–1962)