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
Is bliss, then, such abyss
I must not put my foot amiss
For fear I spoil my shoe?
EMILY DICKINSON
Poems
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
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
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
Just as soon as we discover that ignorance is bliss, it isn't.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
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
These two
Imparadised in one another's arms,
The happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill
Of bliss on bliss.
JOHN MILTON
Paradise Lost
Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
ALEXANDER POPE
Essay on Man