Paradise Quotes

• Without love and kindness life is cold, selfish and uninteresting and leads to distaste for everything. With kindness, the difficult becomes easy, the obscure clear; life assumes a charm and it's miseries are softened. If we knew the power of kindness. we should transform the world into a paradise.

  

  Charles Wagner
  • Life
  • World
  • Power

• When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.

  

  Marilynne Robinson
  • Real
  • Lost
  • Evil

• I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Word
  • Paradise
  • Steps

• You'd be so nice, You'd be paradise To come home to and love.

  

  Cole Porter
  • Home
  • Nice
  • Paradise

• Let's build Paradise again.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Paradise

• I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

  

  Matthew Fox
  • Paradise

• Ta ta and adios. Or, as Saint Peter said to me with a sly wink, when I told him I was on my last-round trip to Paradise: 'See you later, Alligator.'

  

  Kurt Vonnegut
  • Paradise

• If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Earth
  • Paradise
  • Sweat

• Americans keep telling me they hate government. I always tell them: "Man, I've got a country for you: Go to Afghanistan; they don't have one." So if you're of that ilk, yes, you can have your private paradise, but if you're comfortable with government, then go with government.

  

  Uwe Reinhardt
  • Men
  • Country
  • Hate

• When I write 'paradise' I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Women
  • Death
  • Cactus

• Rabelais offers a vision of the future of print culture as a consumer's paradise of applied knowledge. (p. 167)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Future
  • Culture
  • Knowledge

• '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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up
  • Lost
  • Paradise

• If anyone removes (one of the) anxieties of this world from a believer, God will remove (one of the) anxieties from him on the Day of Resurrection; if one smoothes the way for one who is destitute, God will smooth the way for him in this world and the next; and if anyone conceals the faults of a Muslim, God will conceal his faults in this world and the next. God helps a man as long as he helps his brother. If anyone pursues a path in search of knowledge God will thereby make easy for him a path to paradise.

  

  Elijah Muhammad
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Search

• Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

  

  George William Russell
  • Pain
  • Paradise
  • Veil

• Here is an amazement –– once I was twenty years old and in every motion of my body there was a delicious ease, and in every motion of the green earth there was a hint of paradise, and now I am sixty years old, and it is the same.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Earth
  • Green
  • Paradise

• Paradise is open to all kind hearts.

  

  Pierre Jean de Beranger
  • Paradise

• I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Color
  • Hell
  • Flames

• Pleasant to bring back the divisions of a parish; Also pleasant to us the time of paradise. Pleasant, the moon, a luminary in the heavens; Also pleasant where there is a good rememberer.

  

  Taliesin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Moon

• I don't know if paradise or hell exist, but I'm sure hell is more groovy.

  

  Anita Ekberg
  • Knows
  • Hell
  • Ifs

• It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Happy
  • Fool
  • Paradise

• That honourable estate of Matrimony, which was sanctified in Paradise, allowed of the Patriarches, hallowed of the olde Prophets, and commended of al persons.

  

  John Lyly
  • Paradise

• Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Hate
  • Sure
  • Trash

• I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.

  

  Frei Otto
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Humanity

• [Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Peace

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