Paradise Quotes
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Pass in, pass in, the angels say, In to the upper doors; Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to Paradise By the stairway of surprise.
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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.
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Rabelais offers a vision of the future of print culture as a consumer's paradise of applied knowledge. (p. 167)
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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.
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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.
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You'd be so nice, You'd be paradise To come home to and love.
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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.
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If everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise.
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'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.
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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.
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I'm not really a tropical paradise kind of person.
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Paradise is open to all kind hearts.
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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.'
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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.
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Let's build Paradise again.
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No, the serpent did notSeduce Eve to the apple.All that's simplyCorruption of the facts.Adam ate the apple.Eve ate Adam.The serpent ate Eve.This is the dark intestine.The serpent, meanwhile,Sleeps his meal off in Paradise-Smiling to hearGod's querulous calling.
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Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.
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The Wise Man is that which he hath. The precious Pearl of Paradise Wouldst thou not lose, then must thou be Thyself that Pearl of greatest price.
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For a boy of ten, used to the coal bings and rust-coloured burns of Cowdenbeath, the fields and woodland of Kingswood, with its overgrown but stately avenue of copper-barked sequoias, felt like a local version of paradise.
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I really like 'This Side of Paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it's a cool description of a character.
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[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.
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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.
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What is there in 'Paradise Lost' to elevate and astonish like Herschel or Somerville?
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You are the man newly arrivingat history’s worm-ravaged door,the woman whose shadows are salvesupon the bleeding breasts of the earth,the infant whose heartbeatfloods every harp in Paradise.
