BLISS QUOTES II

quotations about bliss

All creation is accurately adjusted to man's capacity for bliss. He tastes the dainties of festivity, breathes the perfumes of morning, revels upon the charms of melody, and regales his eye with all the painted beauties of vision. Whatever can please whatever can charm, whatever can expand the soul with ecstasy of bliss allures and solicits his attention.

F. BURGES

speech delivered at Rhode Island College, 1796


But such a sacred and home-felt delight,
Such sober certainty of waking bliss,
I never heard till now.

JOHN MILTON

Comus


Boredom is not far from bliss: it is bliss seen from the shores of pleasure.

ROLAND BARTHES

The Pleasure of the Text


There is no truer bliss in this world than to pursue that course of life, which beginneth everlasting bliss.

PHILIPPEDES

attributed, Day's Collacon


The sum of earthly bliss.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost


Condition, circumstance, is not the thing;
Bliss is the same in subject or in king.

ALEXANDER POPE

Essay on Man


The wise man starts and trembles at the perils of a bliss.

EDWARD YOUNG

The Brothers


Is bliss, then, such abyss
I must not put my foot amiss
For fear I spoil my shoe?

EMILY DICKINSON

Poems


Success is realising the true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition, aiming to achieve your bliss.

STEVEN REDHEAD

The Solution


Bliss is the joy anticipated in heaven.

NOAH WEBSTER

attributed, Day's Collacon


And in such bliss does devastation grow.

ROSHANI CHOKSHI

The Star-Touched Queen


Just as soon as we discover that ignorance is bliss, it isn't.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called "faith."

ROBERT INGERSOLL

On the Gods and Other Essays


We can cultivate a state of bliss when we are able to let go of stress, worry, and distracting thoughts.

AMY LEIGH MERCREE

The Mood Book


For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

JOSEPH CAMPBELL

The Hero With a Thousand Faces


All indistinctly apprehend a bliss,
On which the soul may rest; the hearts of all
Yearn after it.

DANTE ALIGHIERI

Purgatorio


Ignorance is bliss.

THOMAS GRAY

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College


The bliss e'en of a moment is still bliss.

JOANNA BAILLIE

The Beacon


Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

ALEXANDER POPE

Essay on Man


These two
Imparadised in one another's arms,
The happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill
Of bliss on bliss.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost