Raptus Quotes & Sayings

Ordinary psyches often react to bad news with a momentary thrill, seeing the world, for once, in jagged clarity, as if lightning has just struck. But then darkness and dysfunction rush in. A mind such as Beethoven's remains illumined, or sees in the darkness shapes it never saw before, which inspire rather than terrify. This altered shape (raptus, he would say) makes art of the shapes, while holding in counterpoise such dualities as intellect and intuition, the conscious and the unconscious, mental health and mental disorder, the conventional and the unconventional, complexity and simplicity. — Edmund Morris

Christ will receive all who come to Him, but
Christ will not be sweet to them until sin is first bitter in them. — Joel R. Beeke

Four years earlier I had been selected, with Kay Boyle, the writer, and a number of others, to go to Cambodia and come back and prove that there were no sanctuaries in that country. — William Kunstler

What does it mean when something changes how it's always been? — Liz Phair

Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed.
There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules ... — Umberto Eco

The conflict you're having is not primarily about them; God is working in this conflict to reveal something about you. — Matt Chandler

The gospel is not something partial or piecemeal: it takes in the whole life, the whole of history, the whole world. It tells us about creation and the final judgment and everything in between. — David Lloyd-Jones

If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way. — Robert Wilson

Um ... milk. Yes, I believe I do have milk. In the fridge, Anyn replied, remarkably cordial for someone who'd just been cock-blocked by Dr. Bunsen Honeydew. — Nicole Peeler

Actors have an opportunity to use storytelling as a way to solve pain. — Nicolas Cage