Bliss Quote by William Gaddis Download Open image “It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least.” — William Gaddis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bliss Bliss Childhood Child Childhood Childhood Warped Children Happiness Warped Know
So childhood too feels good at first, before one happens to notice the terrible sameness, age after age. — John Gardner Copy Share Image
With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss -- when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most… — Barry Privett Copy Share Image
Childhood has it's own way of seeing, thinking, and feeling, and nothing is more foolish than to try to substitute ours for theirs. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
How can those of us who are parents help our children recognize their bliss? — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
Childhood is less clear to me than to many people: when it ended I turned my face away from it for no reason that… — Lillian Hellman Copy Share Image
When we raise our children, we relive our childhood. Forgotten memories, painful and pleasurable, rise to the surface… So each of us thinks, almost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As people grow and evolve, we still are the experiences that we had in our childhood, but they shape us in different ways. — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I think that we are all much closer to our childhood selves than we often think, so when we read about childhood, it can… — Sadie Jones Copy Share Image
I still remember the world through the eyes of a child. Suddenly those feelings were clouded by what I know now. — Evanescence Copy Share Image
Little kids grow up discovering the world that's shown to them and then when you become a teenager, it kind of shrinks a little… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
“That after an hour's silence he can say, The one thing I cannot stand is dampness... That's all, it took him an hour to… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“What is it they want from a man that they didn't get from his work? What do they expect? What is there left of… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“-We live in Rome, he says, turning his face to the room again, -Caligula's Rome, with a new circus of vulgar bestialized suffering in… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“It is a naked city. Faith is not pampered, nor hope encouraged; there is no place to lay one's exhaustion: but instead pinnacles skewer… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“-And there's this twelve thousand dollars item for books. -That supposed to be twelve hundred, the twelve thousand is for paper. towels. Besides there… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“There was the cell where Fr. Eulalio, a thriving lunatic of eighty-six who was castigating himself for unchristian pride at having all the vowels… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“Venerable age had not, for him, arranged that derelict landscape against which it is privileged to sit and pick its nose, break wind, and… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“They write for people who read with the surface of their minds, people with reading habits that make the smallest demands on them, people… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“Esther liked books out where everyone could see them, a sort of graphic index to the intricate labyrinth of her mind arrayed to impress… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
“What greater comfort does time afford, than the objects of terror re-encountered, and their fraudulence exposed in the flash of reason?” — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
Ignorance is not bliss — it is oblivion. Determined ignorance is the hastiest kind of oblivion. — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea she is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
Work and leisure are complementary parts of the same living process and cannot be separated without destroying the joy of work and the bliss… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
“Being around her now was nine parts bliss and one part torment. And he wanted it to last as long as possible.” — Molly Ringle Copy Share Image
“He was still a mystery to me. And God, did I want to play Nancy Drew.” — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
Eating, drinking, sleeping a little laughter ! much weeping! Is that all ? Do not die here like a worm. Wake up! Attain immortal bliss! — Sivananda Copy Share Image
How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.” — Joseph P. Kauffman Copy Share Image
