“Life is sheer bliss when it wants to be.”

“Life is but Life! And Death, but Death!Bliss is but Bliss, and Breath but Breath!”

“Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?---"On death”

“Shower upon him every earthly blessing, drown him in bliss so that nothing but bubbles would dance on the surface of his bliss, as on a sea...and even then every man, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer libel, would play you some loathsome trick. He would even risk his cakes and would deliberately desire the most fatal rubbish, the most uneconomical absurdity, simply to introduce into all this positive rationality his fatal fantastic element...simply in order to prove to himself that men still are men and not piano keys.”

“I wondered, "Why have I been chasing happiness my whole life when bliss was here the entire time?”

“Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.”