Quotes About Bliss

the aim of civilization is to translate everything into enjoyment.

And as a sign that everything was now all right in the world, she opened her mouth a fraction, and after arranging her sticky lips better around her old teeth, smacked them and settled down into a state of blissful rest. Levin watched these last movements of hers closely. 'I'm just the same!' he said to himself; 'Just the same! Never mind... All is well.

I'm inexcusably happy. Something magical has happened to me, like a dream, when you're frightened, panic-stricken, and all of a sudden you wake up and all the horrors are no more. I have waked up. I have lived through the misery, the dread, and now for a long while past, especially since we've been here, I've been so happy!…

El fin de la civilización consiste en convertir todas las cosas en un placer.

The longer Levin mowed, the more often he felt those moments of oblivion during which it was no longer his arms that swung the scythe, but the scythe itself that lent motion to his whole body, full of life and conscious of itself, and, as if by magic, without a thought of it, the work got rightly and neatly done on its own. These were the most blissful moments.

happiness that flooded his soul.

Silence is love's own peculiar eloquence of bliss.

[Mortals] say of some temporal suffering, "No future bliss can make up for it," not knowing Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory.

What greater bliss than to look back on days spent in usefulness, in doing good to those around us.

I surely don't think ignorance is bliss. But like everything else that has survived thousands of years of human evolution, ignorance - like denial, self-delusion, and magical thinking - seems to have its uses.

Love is a blissful state, but it's not a utopia.

My whole life is a vacation.

I should be impressed?' he commented finally. 'World renowned for foul works and mayhem, whether I practise such doctrine, or not? A shame. Shown such vulgar taste, what man with a mind would scarcely wallow to seek further clarity. Sweet faith, bliss, and bathos, it's an execrable drama. Never mind that the theological concepts are glorified platitudes sprung out of lies.

The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.

Horatio leaned toward her, What is the secret of joy? Mousey thought for a moment. Doing what you like best. Of course. How simple. And how true.

how nice it is to know you are so profoundly happy, it's had me beaming all day.

You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.

My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop, she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".

Occasionally, I just need to escape from my work or be reminded of the comparative bliss of my own life, so I pick up a novel.

If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you're connected to Spirit, or 'inspired,' if you will. When you're inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

Film can't just be a long line of bliss. There's something we all like about the human struggle.

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.

Bliss, I learned from being sodomized, is an experience of eternity in a moment of real time.