Paradise Quotes
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Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits sacrilege against the benevolent creator of this miracle and contributes to the expulsion from paradise.
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The world where you would go hand in hand with the flower maiden has neither perfect happiness nor joy nor life. This is because it also does not contain perfect sadness nor misery nor death. What lies in waiting is a paradise for wolves alone, the unclean humans are no more...come with me Cheza, it is time.
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If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.
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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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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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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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The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.
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So we'll see you in Paradise?
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A wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise.
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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a 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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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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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.
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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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Then might ye see Cowls, hoods, and habits with their wearers tost And flutter'd into rags; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds; all these upwhirl'd aloft Fly to the rearward of the world far off Into a limbo large and broad, since called The paradise of fools.
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Hold on to the center and make up your mind to rejoice in this paradise called life.
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Paradise is a state of mind.
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South Carolina is in the spring a paradise, in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital.
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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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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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You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.
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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.
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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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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.
