"Nirvana" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... somnolence. That drowsy joy, that soothing silence which seemed only intensified by the murmur of bees and the faint gurgle of water, were like medicine to the soul; and it seemed that the conception of Nirvana became easily understood as the delicious open-air reverie grew more and more involved and vague. Then the last look of the sun, the creeping shadows that made the sea gray and turned the little lake to an inky hue, and then the slow fall ...
— The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions - Joints In Our Social Armour • James Runciman
... soft voice of the chowkidar pulled him back out of his Nirvana of non-existence, and he called ...
— Caste • W. A. Fraser
... worship her! For first she asked me of my faith and listened eagerly as I expounded it, hoping that the light would come into her heart; then, after I had finished she said—"'So your Path is Renunciation and your Nirvana a most excellent Nothingness which some would think it scarce worth while to strive so hard to reach. Now I will show you a more joyous way and a goddess more worthy ...
— Ayesha - The Further History of She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed • H. Rider Haggard
... found in some Buddhistic sects in China. Mahayana Buddhism, on the other hand, developed into a true popular religion of salvation. It did not interfere with the indigenous deities and did not discountenance life in human society; it did not recommend Nirvana at once, but placed before it a here-after with all the joys worth striving for. In this form Buddhism was certain of success in Asia. On its way from India to China it divided into countless separate streams, each characterized by a particular book. Every nuance, from profound ...
— A history of China., [3d ed. rev. and enl.] • Wolfram Eberhard
... even suggests (2e. serie, t. ii. p. 62) that the ultimate result was almost the nirvana of Budhism. It will be observed, that the view taken in the text concerning the Neo-Platonic philosophy, for which I am largely indebted to Pressense, is different from that which regards it as monotheism, and which ...
— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar
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