Paradise Quotes
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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?
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Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.
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They took away what should have been my eyes (but I remembered Milton's Paradise). They took away what should have been my ears, (Beethoven came and wiped away my tears) They took away what should have been my tongue, (but I had talked with god when I was young) He would not let them take away my soul, possessing that I still possess the whole.
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Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven Is Love's location. No dogmatic creed, No austere faith based on ignoble fear Can lead thee into realms of joy and peace. Unless the humblest creatures on the earth Are bettered by thy loving sympathy Think not to find a Paradise beyond.
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I don't put a penny's value on this life if only our Lord will give me a tiny corner in Paradise.
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He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
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If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.
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Poetry is unfallen speech. Paradise knew no other, for no other would suffice to answer the need of those ecstatic days of innocence.
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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.
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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"
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Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.
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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
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Paradise is a state of mind.
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...wherever you find the greatest good, you will find the greatest evil, because evil loves paradise as much as good.
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The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.
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So we'll see you in Paradise?
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You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.
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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.
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I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.
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A fantasy can be equivalent to a paradise and if the fantasy passes, better yet, because eternal paradise would be very boring.
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Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.
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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.
