Bliss Quotes

• Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

  

  John Milton
  • War
  • Heaven
  • Violence

• But love, like wine, gives a tumultuous bliss, Heighten'd indeed beyond all mortal pleasures; But mingles pangs and madness in the bowl.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Wine
  • Madness
  • Bowl

• Ah, child and youth, if you knew the bliss which resides in the taste of knowledge, and the evil and ugliness that lies in ignorance, how well you are advised to not complain of the pain and labor of learning.

  

  Christine de Pizan
  • Knowledge
  • Evil
  • Ignorance

• In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Evil
  • Laughter
  • Bliss

• Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away.

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Moments
  • Happiness
  • Melancholy

• Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Opportunity
  • Bliss
  • Decorum

• Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Man
  • Feeling
  • Despair

• Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss; Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss.

  

  William Cowper
  • Soul
  • Tears
  • Kissing

• There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Dancing
  • Performing
  • Bliss

• Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor But was a race of heaven.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heaven
  • Eye
  • Poor

• Be still and know yourself as the Truth you have been searching for. Be still and let the inherent joy of that Truth capture your drama and destroy it in the bliss of consummation. Be still and let your life be lived by the purpose you were made for. Be still and receive the inherent truth of your heart.

  

  Gangaji
  • Practice
  • Drama
  • Yourself

• I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

  

  Tracy Chevalier
  • Taken
  • Library
  • Distraction

• From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Bliss
  • Thee
  • Imparts

• He guides us into pastures green, He leads to bowers of bliss, Our Father lives, the God unseen, and Christ our Shepherd is.

  

  Cecil Frances Alexander
  • Father
  • Green
  • Christ

• And I never knew survival was like that. If you live, you look back and beg for it again, the hazardous bliss before you know what you would miss.

  

  Ada Limon
  • Survival
  • Miss
  • Bliss

• Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Art
  • Bliss
  • Nurturance

• I try to be aware of the life that surrounds me as much as my mind permits me. It's the only time I have new blissful moments, and I love bliss.

  

  Alicia Sixtos
  • I Love
  • My Mind
  • Surrounds

• It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.

  

  William Gaddis
  • Childhood
  • Knows
  • Bliss

• When you realize yourself as completely empty and devoid of all form... this is wisdom, When you realize yourself as the fullness of love overflowing itself without object... this is bliss, And when you are aware of yourself incarnate in the appearance of form... this is leela.

  

  Eli Jaxon-Bear
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Leela

• Is Bliss then, such Abyss, I must not put my foot amiss For fear I spoil my shoe? I'd rather suit my foot Than save my Boot -- For yet to buy another Pair is possible, At any store -- But Bliss, is sold just once. The Patent lost None buy it any more -

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Fear
  • Possible
  • Store

• You've got to find your bliss as a human being, because if you can follow that, everything else falls into place.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Human being
  • Bliss
  • Falls

• There is pleasure And there is bliss. Forgo the first to possess the second. If you are happy At the expense of another man's happiness, You are forever bound.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure
  • Possess

• The heart outstrips the clumsy senses, and sees - perhaps for an instant, perhaps for long periods of bliss - an undistorted and more veritable world.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Heart
  • Senses
  • Bliss

• There is no human bliss equal to twelve hours of work with only six hours in which to do it.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Human
  • Hours
  • Bliss

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