Paradise Quotes
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If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor.
Victor Hugo
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Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.
Ariana Franklin -
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
William Penn -
I don't put a penny's value on this life if only our Lord will give me a tiny corner in Paradise.
Camillus de Lellis -
Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf holiday, and most people would dream of Scotland or Ireland. But Indonesia harbors one of the best-kept secrets in the world of travel: it is a golfer's paradise.
Raymond Bonner -
So we'll see you in Paradise?
Chris Harrison -
When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does not suffer the same fate. If a man dies before marriage, he is given a posthumous wife. The women passionately want to be burned because they believe they will enter paradise.
Al-Masudi
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The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.
Quentin S. Crisp -
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.
Molly Ivins -
...wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
Wallace Stegner -
First of all, Buddhism is neither pessimistic nor optimistic. If anything at all, it is realistic, for it takes a realistic view of life and the world. It looks at things objectively (yath?bh?tam). It does not falsely lull you into living in a fool's paradise, nor does it frighten and agonize you with all kinds of imaginary fears and sins. It tells you exactly and objectively what you are and what the world around you is, and shows you the way to perfect freedom, peace, tranquility and happiness.
Walpola Rahula -
If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.
Francine Rivers
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The animal creation shall again gladden a new Paradise as they did when Adam and Eve called them by name, and carressed them and mingled in their society. The Bible everywhere indicates that the new earth will be a counterpart of the old before the fall, so we must conclude that lower animals who were created before man and have been his companions before and since the fall will be restored with him in the "new Creation"
Ed Buckner -
Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.
Arthur Lynch -
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
William Makepeace Thackeray -
The Jewish Talmud says that the righteous peoples have an equal place in paradise. The Christians and Muslims agree in rejecting that; they claim that they are the fortunate recipients of God's final message and those who accepted will go to heaven and those who rejected go to hell. So there is a long struggle between the Dar al-Islam and the Dar al-Harb, which in effect was Christendom. This was the perceived enemy. And this has inevitably colored the perception of everything else.
Bernard Lewis -
The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.
Victor Hugo -
To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
Vita Sackville-West
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Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.
Alexandre Dumas-fils -
I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside of me all the time. It's funny, I don't really write too much in poetry about Hawaii, but I published a book of stories a couple of years ago.
Barbara Hamby -
Fairyland...Paradise...In this place and at this time, Marguerite could know that the one was a parable of the other and both were synonyms for something that had no name.
Elizabeth Goudge -
Speak Little. Learn the words of eternity. Go beyond your tangled thoughts and find the splendor of paradise.
Rumi