Bliss famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Thus one should know oneself to be of the nature of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss[Sat-Chit-Ananda].
-- Adi Shankara -
It is not the pursuit of greater and greater states of happiness and bliss that leads to enlightenment, but the yearning for Reality and the rabid dissatisfaction with living anything less than a fully authentic life.
-- Adyashanti -
Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.
-- Alexander Pope -
That virtue only makes our bliss below, And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.
-- Alexander Pope -
I don't know if bliss is possible and I've always thought that my best times will be later in life.
-- Alison Krauss -
Kiss. n. A word invented by the poets as a rhyme for "bliss".
-- Ambrose Bierce -
Life can be dangerous; just let it be! When we shake off what we perceive as boundaries, that is where the bliss really is.
-- Ann Wilson -
Do not aim low, you will miss the mark. Aim high and you will be on a threshold of bliss.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.
-- Barbara Feldon -
I know I am--that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.
-- Bayard Taylor -
From the best bliss that earth imparts, we turn unfilled to Thee again.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux -
To seek is to suffer. To seek nothing is bliss.
-- Bodhidharma -
Zazen isn't about blissing out or going into an alpha brain-wave trance. It's about facing who and what you really are, in every single ***** moment. And you aren't bliss, I'll tell you that right now. You're a mess. We all are.
-- Brad Warner -
If not bliss, ignorance can at least be fun.
-- Carter Burwell -
Look at her -- I would die for her. I would kill for her. Either way -- what bliss.
-- Charles Addams -
Tranquility is the Truth, Truth is beauty beauty is happiness and bliss is divine
-- Chinmayananda Saraswati -
Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.
-- Colley Cibber -
The sugary taste of satisfaction is bliss.
-- Courtney Stodden -
When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.
-- Darren Shan -
Mankind was not meant to suffer -- bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let's rock.
-- David Lynch -
Bliss is not a feeling but a state of being. In the state of bliss, everything is loved.
-- Deepak Chopra -
If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue.
-- Deepak Chopra -
If we never felt sorrow, we'd never recognize bliss.
-- Dennis Quaid -
If you really believe death leads to eternal bliss then why are you wearing a seatbelt?
-- Doug Stanhope -
Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss of leisure.
-- E. F. Schumacher -
I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.
-- Eden Sher -
Sacred Infant, all divine, What a tender love was Thine, Thus to come from highest bliss Down to such a world as this.
-- Edward Caswall -
Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.
-- Elizabeth Gilbert -
Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.
-- Eoin Colfer -
Far worse it is To lose than never to have tasted bliss.
-- Giovanni Battista Guarini -
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.
-- Glen Duncan -
Straight men just can't imagine the bliss of being in a relationship with someone who finds farting as funny as they do.
-- Graham Norton -
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
-- Guru Nanak -
I am in constant bliss, day and night, egotism has been dispelled from within me.
-- Guru Nanak -
You can only have bliss if you don't chase it.
-- Henepola Gunaratana -
Keep clear of courts: a homely life transcends The vaunted bliss of monarchs and their friends.
-- Horace -
It amazes me that organs that piss Can give human beings such perfect bliss.
-- Irving Layton -
There is always a risk to follow your bliss, a price to pursue your passion.
-- James Arthur Ray -
You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.
-- James Hillman -
Whoever said ignorance was bliss was shortsighted.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
He smiled, so sensual and beautiful, it was another form of bliss just looking at him.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Ignorance is more than bliss, it's freaking orgasmic ecstacy!
-- Jim Butcher -
Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss
-- Jim Morrison -
The bliss even of a moment still is bliss.
-- Joanna Baillie -
By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite
-- Johann Gottlieb Fichte -
To bliss unknown by lofty soul aspires, My lot unequal to my vast desires.
-- John Arbuthnot -
Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.
-- John Milton -
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state,
-- Joseph Campbell -
What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss
-- Joseph Campbell -
Where is your bliss station? You have to try to find it.
-- Joseph Campbell -
Poets are simply those who have made a profession ans a lifestyle of being in touch with their bliss.
-- Joseph Campbell -
There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.
-- Joseph Campbell -
I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.
-- Julia Quinn -
I'm a believer in 'Ignorance is bliss.'
-- Julianna Margulies -
Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
-- K. D. Lang -
If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.
-- Kathie Lee Gifford -
People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening.
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
If ignorance is bliss, it's cuz she's never heard of this...
-- LeCrae -
No great deed, private or public, has ever been undertaken in a bliss of certainty.
-- Leon Wieseltier -
The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs.
-- Louise Colet -
As I forgive, I set myself free and experience the bliss of inner peace.
-- Louise Hay -
The golden gate to peace in life is the experience of bliss, and it is easy for everyone to acquire this great glory and live it throughout life.
-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
The purpose of speech is to enliven the bliss in others.
-- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.
-- Meher Baba -
All novels are sequels; influence is bliss.
-- Michael Chabon -
There is no greater bliss than dancing and performing.
-- Michael Jackson -
In silence more work can be done. The true experience of bliss is without words.
-- Mother Meera -
No feeling you get from any exterior stimulation or source is anything like the total bliss of communion within.
-- Neale Donald Walsch -
You've got to find your bliss as a human being, because if you can follow that, everything else falls into place.
-- Nicole Kidman -
Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss.
-- Nora Ephron -
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
-- Osip Mandelstam -
Bliss is a thing which is always there and is not something which comes and goes. That which comes and goes is a creation of the mind.
-- Ramana Maharshi -
Real bliss is the absence of the wanting of bliss
-- Ramesh S Balsekar -
On you and me and everything, I bestow my ripe blessings and boisterous bliss...
-- Rob Brezsny -
If there's another world, he lives in bliss; if there is none, he made the best of this.
-- Robert Burns -
When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss.
-- Robert Thurman -
Ignorance might be bliss, but it's irresponsible and dangerous too.
-- Robyn Carr -
the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.
-- Ruth Stout -
Bliss begins with the breath. We breathe in, and accept all that is new. We breathe out, and release all that has passed.
-- Sara Wiseman -
You have come from God, you are a spark of His Glory; you are a wave of that Ocean of Bliss; you will get peace only when you again merge in Him.
-- Sathya Sai Baba -
Events bring you small joy, while #‎ existence brings you bliss.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar -
Ignorance is not bliss. It is the kiss of death.
-- Suzy Kassem -
The supreme bliss that pulsates in the wake of meditation is your pure essence.
-- Swami Muktananda -
I can assure you that those who have already passed have not only made it to the Other Side, but are in a state of bliss.
-- Sylvia Browne -
If ignorance is indeed bliss, it is a very low grade of the article.
-- Tehyi Hsieh -
The hues of bliss more brightly glow, Chastis'd by sabler tints of woe.
-- Thomas Gray -
So mayst thou live, dear! many years, In all the bliss that life endears
-- Thomas Hood
