What is ecstasy?

Famous quotes containing the word ecstasy:

“This is the very ecstasy of love.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“They seldom looked happy. They passed one another without a word in the elevator, like silent shades in hell, hell-bent on their next look from a handsome stranger. Their next rush from a popper. The next song that turned their bones to jelly and left them all on the dance floor with heads back, eyes nearly closed, in the ecstasy of saints receiving the stigmata.”
—Andrew Holleran (b. 1943)

“An enema under the influence of Ecstasy would probably feel much like this.”
—Germaine Greer (b. 1939)