Bliss Quotes

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss. (Samuel Beckett)
If you really believe that death leads to eternal bliss, then why are you wearing a seatbelt? View quote
Doug Stanhope
It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss; volatile spirits prefer unhappiness. View quote
George Santayana
The scenic ideals that surround even our national parks are carriers of a nostalgia for heavenly bliss and eternal calmness. View quote
Robert Smithson
A watchful eye must be kept on ourselves, lest while we are building ideal monuments of renown and bliss here, we neglect to have our names enrolled in the annals of Heaven. View quote
James Madison
Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgastic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery. View quote
Betty Friedan
Vain, very vain, my weary search to find That bliss which only centres in the mind. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
Thou source of all my bliss and all my woe, That found'st me poor at first, and keep'st me so. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
[...] where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. View quote
Thomas Gray
They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude. View quote
William Wordsworth
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven. (William Wordsworth)
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. View quote
Swami Sivananda
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
If there's another world, he lives in bliss; If there is none, he made the best of this. View quote
Robert Burns
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve,-how exquisite the bliss! View quote
Robert Burns
A wild dissolving bliss Over my frame he breathed, approaching near, And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
My conscience is my crown, Contented thoughts my rest; My heart is happy in itself, My bliss is in my breast. Enough I reckon wealth; A mean the surest lot, That lies too high for base contempt, Too low for envy's shot. View quote
Robert Southwell
If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face. View quote
Zack de la Rocha
Now I've been crying lately, Thinking about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating? Why can't we live in bliss? View quote
Cat Stevens
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die? View quote
Jack Kerouac
Vital spark of heav'nly flame Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying. (Alexander Pope)
I still feel the need of some imperishable bliss. View quote
Wallace Stevens
No themes are so human as those that reflect for us, out of the confusion of life, the close connection of bliss and bale, of the things that help with the things that hurt, so dangling before us forever that bright hard medal, of so strange an alloy, one face of which is somebody's right and ease and the other somebody's pain and wrong. View quote
Henry James
A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this To waste his whole heart in one kiss Upon her perfect lips. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck. View quote
W. H. Auden