Ignorant Bliss Quotes & Sayings

Creeps and idiots cannot conceal themselves for long on a fishing trip. — John Gierach

I think same sex couples should be able to get married. — Barack Obama

This isn't happening to you, princess," Sabine snapped before I could do more than shake my head. "This is happening to us. While you spent the past few months prancing around in ignorant bliss, we were all being possessed, or kidnapped, or stalked by this hellion. So dry your tears and take off the tiara, because this is a call to arms, not a pity party. You're not going to find any sympathy here. — Rachel Vincent

For a man's life would become intolerable, if he knew what was going to happen to him. He would be made aware of future evils, and would suffer their agonies in advance, while he would get no joy of present blessings since he would know how they would end. Ignorance is the necessary condition of human happiness, and it has to be admitted that on the whole mankind observes that condition well. We are almost entirely ignorant of ourselves; absolutely of others. In ignorance, we find our bliss; in illusions, our happiness. — Anatole France

And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss. — Simone Elkeles

She was the Little Red Riding Hood in this situation and I was the Big Bad Wolf with a big bad boner. — Penelope Ward

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom — Kahlil Gibran

I started doing drama after school, and it just developed into something that I did and I enjoyed very much. — Dominique McElligott

Either grant me the bliss of the ignorant or give me the strength to bear the knowledge. — Elif Shafak

I am shrunken and shriveled inside, a rotten chestnut hidden beneath a deceptively smooth shell — Laura Wiess

Ignorance might be bliss for the ignorant, but for the rest of us it's a right fucking pain in the arse — Ricky Gervais

It has always been, and still is, my intention to build a playground in Central Park. — Diana Ross

But I had learned long ago that you actually probably don't want to know what kind of guy your besties think you ought to be with. It always says more as much about what they thing of you as what they think of him, and I find a certain comfort in being ignorant of what my pals might envision for me. — Stacey Ballis

With childhood comes a brief grace period of ignorant bliss
when you're not aware of the pain around you. That is the most special, truly unique time. It is the core of adult lament. — Barry Privett

In what ways has God changed you to become more holy because of Jesus' blessing? How is God inviting you to make further changes in your life to live at greater levels of obedience and holiness to reflect Christ more? — Mark Driscoll

Go your way. Forget Prometheus, And all the woe that he is doom'd to bear; By his own choice this vile estate preferring To ignorant bliss and unfelt slavery. — Hartley Coleridge

They that believe that ignorance is bliss, are ignorant and have never known bliss. — Ryan Miller

wasn't that ignorance made you blissful. It was that bliss made you ignorant. — Joe Sharp

Ignorance is bliss was bull. Melody had been ignorant her whole life, and things were far from blissful. It was time to give knowledge is power a try. — Lisi Harrison

The learned must educate the ignorant. Because, according to society, ignorance is never bliss. Except in retrospect. I look back upon my ignorance with the knowledge that I was much happier then than now. Consider this: children know precious little, but the profound ignorance comes from profound innocence. People really mean to say that innocence is bliss. And bliss is short-lived. — Nick Sagan