Paradise Quotes

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. (Jean Paul)
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. View quote
Laurie Anderson
Paradise is where I am. View quote
Voltaire
It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Every beloved object is the center of a paradise. View quote
Novalis
Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action? View quote
Arthur Miller
The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. View quote
Montesquieu
Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH... View quote
Jack Kerouac
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. (Emil Cioran)
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. View quote
Emil Cioran
England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies, and humors. View quote
George Santayana
It is better to be a young June Bug than an old Bird of Paradise. View quote
Mark Twain
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world is simply a guarantee that there exists a world that is perfect. God created the world so that, through its visible objects, men could understand his spiritual teachings and the marvels of his wisdom. View quote
Paulo Coelho
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
But veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls. View quote
George Eliot
It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell. View quote
Margaret Atwood
This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century. (E. O. Wilson)
You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Domestic happiness, thou only blissOf Paradise that has survived the fall. View quote
William Cowper
The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise. View quote
André Gide