Quotes About Bliss

What I've come to learn in my long life is that ignorance is not bliss; it is time consuming and costly as hell.

There is the story of the English vicar who was asked whether he expected to go to heaven, and what he thought he would find there. Well, I suppose I believe in eternal bliss, if it comes to that, he replied, but I wish you wouldn't bring up such depressing subjects.

Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known.

We must risk delight.

There is no higher happiness than peace.

How sweet it is!

Joy comes and fills the self-emptied heart; it abides with the peaceful; its reign is with the pure.

Sweet is the rest and deep the bliss of him who has freed his heart from its lusts and hatreds and dark desires; and he who, without any shadow of bitterness or selfishness resting upon him, and looking out upon the world with boundless compassion and love, can breathe in his inmost heart, the blessing: Peace unto all living things.

Sympathy is bliss; in it is revealed the highest, purest blessedness. It is divine, for in its reciprocal light all thought of self is lost, and there remains only the pure joy of oneness with others.

Selfhood is the source of suffering; Truth is the source of bliss.

town. Tracy was living the dream. Here it was, not five months before Doug Benton would turn up missing, and Tracy and Doug were in love, riding, lifting weights side-by-side, dining out with her daughter and taking walks in the park hand-in-hand. It seemed as if they'd carved out a piece of life's bliss. Doug had been married and divorced twice. Tracy had come from a few tumultuous relationships and marriages herself. Neither had given up on romance, Tracy said,

and our joy was so bright we could see nothing else but the other.

Crass Casualty obstructs the sun and rain,/And dicing Time for gladness casts a moan.... /These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown/Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.' I know you know what that means: you believe in God but I believe in 'Crass Casualty'—in chance, in luck. That's what I mean. You see? What good does it do to make whatever decision you're talking about? What good does courage do—when what happens next is up for grabs?

Now a soft kiss - Aye, by that kiss, I vow an endless bliss.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? ---On death

When it is moving on luxurious wings, The soul is lost in pleasant smotherings.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by? The transient pleasures as a vision seem, And yet we think the greatest pain's to die.

I'll feel my heaven anew

There is no major case against life's enjoyments.

How can I live without thee, how forego Thy sweet converse, and love so dearly joined, To live again in these wild woods forlorn? Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart; no, no, I feel The link of nature draw me: flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.

Perhaps the whisper was born before lips, And the leaves in treelessness circled and flew, And those, to whom we impart our experience as bliss, Acquire their forms before we do

We all want to experience more happiness, fulfillment, and peace.

Bliss defies description, obviously, since it annihilates you, since you're not there to experience it. You get the lead-up and the come-down, never the zenith.

Concentrate on being happy, its the easiest way to happiness.