Paradise Quotes

There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

The only possible paradises are those we have lost

The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys.

The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.

If I serve you in hopes of Paradise, deny me Paradise.If I serve thee in fear of hell, condemn me to hell.But if I love thee for love of thyself,then grant me thyself.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

Drugs bring us to to the gates of paradise, then keep us from entering.

No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

I've been to paradise. But I've never been to me.

Love is the rehearsal of Paradise.

If I see any politician or a priest or an imam or a rabbi in the Paradise, I will give up believing in God!

Paradise can take the form of anything! It can be a flower or it can be a word or it can just be a sincere smile!

Reason and religion cannot coexist together. If reason exists, then paradise, prophets and all other religiuous illusions disappear.

The very nature of paradise is that it will be lost.

I'm a man. I lived it and I'm not afraid to die but when I die I'm going to paradise and I'm not worried.

Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.

Your kundalini rises. She is your mother. She is your individual mother and she gives you the second birth. That's how you get connected to the Divine Paradise.

The hand above turns those leaves of loves, all in all a timeless view. Each dream of life flung from paradise everlasting, ever new.

God, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in he middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes.

An old art spreading rumours about / Paradise, it begs outside the gates / Of the gods: the active gods come out.

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

Did you know that Allah promises you a seat in Paradise if you kill a Christian?

The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.

Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise in them than defeat.

How much better when the whole land is a garden, and the people have grown up in the bowers of a paradise.

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

If not for the cost burdens of fear we would all be living in paradise

The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads the way, / That shines, not on vague worlds of bliss, / But on a paradise in this.

Take the word Liberty from human speech and all the other words become poor, withered, meaningless sounds - but with that word realized - with that word understood, the world becomes a paradise.

Thanksgiving is every day because in this physical body you can spring into eternal paradise.

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

When I got into art school, I thought it was paradise. I wanted to be an artist so much that I was really driven and nothing could stop me.

Trust me, he whispers against my lips. Maggie, you're my paradise.

If there were no affliction in this world we might think we were in paradise.

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul.

People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.

The electricity came on for the second time today wile we were eating. This may be a fool's paradise, but it's a paradise nonetheless.

I never started out to be an action actor. I was an ensemble actor. "Rocky" was an ensemble film. "F.I.S.T." was an ensemble. "Paradise Alley" was an ensemble.

Love! the surviving gift of Heaven, The choicest sweet of Paradise, In life's else bitter cup distilled.

Thought would destroy their paradise.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

The imperfect is our paradise. Note that, in this bitterness, delight, Since the imperfect is so hot in us, Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.

After a lustre of the moon, we say We have not the need of any paradise, We have not the need of any seducing hymn.

I think we are all of the same opinion that "wherever you go, there you are," and if you are constantly searching for paradise outside of yourself, you will miss what is in your own backyard.

Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!

A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result.

Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter?