Annihilation Quote by Ambrose Bierce

“Nirvana," says Kiai Hwan,[FN#276] "means the extinction of pain or the crossing over of the sea of life and death. It denotes the real…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Nirvana is a word that means enlightenment, being beyond the illusion of birth and death, the illusion of pain, the illusion of love, the…

— Frederick Lenz

Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.

— Frederick Lenz

“you can attain to highest bliss through your conscious union with Buddha. Nothing can disturb your peace, when you can enjoy peace in the…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Nirvana means to extinguish the burning fires of the Three Poisons: greed, anger, and ignorance. This can be accomplished by letting go of dissatisfaction.

— Shinjo Ito

“The goal of the Buddha’s teaching is Nibbāna (Sanskrit: Nirvāṇa). Literally translated, that means “not burning,” or in other words, the loss of all…

— Ayya Khema

“For the Buddha of the Pali Canon, the goal is liberation: the cessation of suffering, the end of the endless hamster-wheel of dependent origination,…

— Jay Michaelson

“One is a Buddhist if he or she accepts the following four truths: All compounded things are impermanent. All emotions are pain. All things…

— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse

I call it nirvana, the complete destruction of old age and dying.

— Gautama Buddha

Buddhist nirvana ... is based on egolessness and is not anthropocentric but rather cosmological. In Buddhism, humans and the things of the universe are…

— Masao Abe

“When the Buddha declares there is escape from sorrow, the escape is Nirvana, which is not a place, like heaven, but a psychological state…

— Joseph Campbell

There is a way to be purified, to overcome sorrows and grief, to release suffering, to secure the right path to realize nirvana. This…

— Gautama Buddha