Bliss Quote by William Morris

“So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss…

— Margaret Atwood

We have come by curious ways To the Light that holds the days; We have sought in haunts of fear For that all-enfolding sphere:…

— Alfred Noyes

In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears…

— Alexander MacLaren

“With favoring winds, o'er sunlit seas, We sailed for the Hesperides, The land where golden apples grow; But that, ah! that was long ago.…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.

— Lord Byron

“There, below the cliffs, is a bay of sand where the rocks stand up like the fangs of wolves, and no boat or swimmer…

— Mary Stewart

“Paradise” is a suffering word, grossly overused and ineptly devalued in everyday hype and blurb. Yet, tired as it is, it will have to…

— Andrew Rayner

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

— George William Russell

“Paradise is not a garden of bliss and changeless perfection where the lions lie down like lambs (what would they eat?) and the angels…

— Edward Abbey

“Speak, thou vast and venerable head,” muttered Ahab, “which, though ungarnished with a beard, yet here and there lookest hoary with mosses; speak, mighty…

— Herman Melville

“The mountains that enfold the vale With walls of granite, steep and high, Invite the fearless foot to scale Their stairway toward the sky.…

— Henry Van Dyke

“It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the Sphynx’s in the…

— Herman Melville