Paradise famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.
-- Abraham Verghese -
He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.
-- Abu Bakr -
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
-- Abu Bakr -
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.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell.
-- Al-Ghazali -
There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise,
-- Alain Badiou -
Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.
-- Albert Camus -
I don't like Paradise, as they probably don't have obsessions there.
-- Alda Merini -
Our grandsire, Adam, ere of Eve possesst, Alone, and e'en in Paradise unblest, With mournful looks the blissful scenes survey'd, And wander'd in the solitary shade. The Maker say, took pity, and bestow'd Woman, the last, the best reserv'd of God.
-- Alexander Pope -
To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.
-- Alexander Pope -
Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.
-- Alexandre Dumas-fils -
The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.
-- Amanda Lindhout -
As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking man.
-- Ambrose -
A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.
-- Amy Waldman -
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.
-- Andre Breton -
The fatal mistake we make is looking for a paradise that endures...This obsession with what lasts causes us to overlook many a fleeting paradise.
-- Andreï Makine -
Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.
-- Andrew Marvell -
What would the Russian Bear and the American Eagle do if they discovered our paradise? Our secrecy is our shield!
-- Andrew Ryan -
Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.
-- Angelus Silesius -
I don't know if paradise or hell exist, but I'm sure hell is more groovy.
-- Anita Ekberg -
Occupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it.
-- Anna Brownell Jameson -
Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.
-- Anne Bancroft -
Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.
-- Anne Hull -
I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.
-- Anselm Kiefer -
We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.
-- Arthur Boyd -
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
-- Augustus Hare -
I entered the classroom with the conviction that it was crucial for me and every other student to be an active participant, not a passive consumer...education as the practice of freedom.... education that connects the will to know with the will to become. Learning is a place where paradise can be created.
-- Bell Hooks -
The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.
-- Bell Hooks -
All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Do not feel envious of the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise, for only a fool will think that is happiness.
-- Bertrand Russell -
As a director, or just a film fan who wants to enjoy the festival, Cannes is the worst place to be. But it must be a paradise for distributors and importers.
-- Bong Joon-ho -
We always imagine that there's got to be somewhere else better than where we are right now; this is the Great Somewhere Else we all carry around in our heads. We believe Somewhere Else is out there for us if only we could find it. But there's no Somewhere Else. Everything is right here...Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.
-- Brad Warner -
You can't live in paradise—but you are living right here. Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.
-- Brad Warner -
It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus.
-- Brother Lawrence -
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.
-- Byron Katie -
You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise
-- Caitlin Moran -
I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.
-- Callan McAuliffe -
If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.
-- Camille Claudel -
Falling in love doesn't always lead to heartbreak, honey. With the right man, it can be a one-way ticket to paradise.
-- Catherine Anderson -
In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise
-- Cesare Borgia -
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton.
-- Charles Darwin -
To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.
-- Charles Godfrey Leland -
The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.
-- Christina Rossetti -
Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility...
-- Christopher Cross -
It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist
-- Dan Brown -
No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. Expressing the importance of Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics.
-- David Hilbert -
Paradise is a state of consciousness. All you have to do is purify yourself and you automatically arrive.
-- David Wolfe -
Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.
-- Edward Abbey -
The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.
-- Emily Dickinson -
Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.
-- Ephrem the Syrian -
When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.
-- Eric Cantona -
The wonder is what you can make a paradise out of.
-- Eva Hoffman -
A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.
-- F. R. Leavis -
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 -
The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not.
-- Franz Kafka -
Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again.
-- Frederick Buechner -
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.
-- George Eliot -
Paradise is full of idiots who believe it exists
-- Georges Wolinski -
My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'...
-- Gerhard Richter -
I have some state secrets I will take with me to paradise.
-- Giulio Andreotti -
Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.
-- Gloria Swanson -
The older I get, the more I appreciate my childhood. It was paradise.
-- Greg Mortenson -
Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as subtle as summer is obvious; as refreshing as summer is wearying. Autumn seems like paradise.
-- Gregg Easterbrook -
If we take judging ourselves and others out of our life, we will mostly be living in paradise.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi -
..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.
-- Harlan Coben -
I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.
-- Henning Mankell -
The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.
-- Henry Mitchell -
For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to be disregarded.
-- Howard K. Smith -
I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.
-- Huey Lewis -
Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.
-- Humphrey Bogart -
Be at your mother’s feet and there is the Paradise.
-- Ibn Majah -
Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again.
-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya -
The church has been planted as a paradise in this world.
-- Irenaeus of Lyons -
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
-- J. D. Salinger -
We have the technology to build a global paradise on earth, and at the same time, we have the power to end life as we know it. Â I am a futurist. Â I cannot predict the actual future - only what it can be if we manage the earth and its resources intelligently.
-- Jacque Fresco -
An inherent sense of man makes him long for an eternal paradise.
-- James Ellis -
There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown.
-- Jane Hirshfield -
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.
-- Jean Baudrillard -
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
-- Jean Paul -
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
-- Jean Rostand -
Our notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden.
-- Jeff Cox -
When Eve ate the apple her knowledge increased. But God liked dumb women so Paradise ceased. Gwen Goodnight. Her Work.
-- Jennifer Crusie -
A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world.
-- Jim Morrison -
It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.
-- John Flavel -
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
-- John Florio -
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.
-- John Milton
