Paradise Quotes
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.
Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.
Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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.
remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in certain ecstasy, for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.
For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.
There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown.
'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.
Laziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise.
Into the paradise of euphony, the good poet must introduce hell. Broken paradises are the only kind worth reading.
God, what is all this talk put out by the popes? Paradise is here, my good man. God, give me no other paradise!
Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of Eden, but as a compensation she makes the earth very pleasant.
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.
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.
I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.
The meanest flowret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, and skies, / To him are opening paradise.
Certainly Adam in Paradise had not more sweet and curious apprehensions of the world, than I when I was a child.
It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.
This is who I am Escapist Paradise Seeker Farewell, time to fly Out of sight Out of time Away from all lies
To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.
It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise.
Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so.
The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.
If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!
Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?