Paradise Quotes

Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.

You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.

The wine they drink in Paradise They make in Haute Lorraine.

There ain't no place like paradise.

I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost.

We are equal inhabitants of a paradise of individuals in which everybody has the right to be understood.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

To cleave that sea [the Aegean] in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise.

If an armed nation were a polite nation, America would be paradise. We have more than 200 million guns in private owernship here. But our manners are not getting better.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

If I am happy inside, then I live in paradise no matter where my residence is.

Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics.

You cannot avoid paradise. You can only avoid seeking it.

Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.

The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.

Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth.

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

Jealousy is the dragon in paradise; the hell of heaven; and the most bitter of the emotions because associated with the sweetest.

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.

Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America / Have such a sad time together.

The peak of empathogens can be characterised as earthly paradise in comparison to the heavenly paradise of LSD and hallucinogens of that category.

Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility.

'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.

If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory.

There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown.

Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.

Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.

Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.

Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.