Paradise Quotes - page 11

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. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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.”. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
The relationship between these two powers may be expressed by saying that the pope must keep for himself the golden key to the 'Celestial Paradise' and entrust to the emperor the silver key to the 'Terrestrial Paradise.' View quote
René Guénon
From the social point of view as from all others, instability is as it were at its maximum, disorder and confusion are everywhere, and humanity has surely never been further from the 'Terrestrial Paradise' and from primordial spirituality. View quote
René Guénon
The boat people, the boat people, in getting out what got in, getting out of South Vietnam, that so called communist paradise and that's to show enough to the whole world that the communist regime doesn't work in South Vietnam. And maybe if we are in fight now inside in...in...South Vietnam, we will have certainly the support of the general, of the majority, of the population. We never had that thing before. But now, if there is some, something, you know, moving over there, I am almost sure that we have I am sure that we have, the support, the majority of the population. View quote
Nguyen Khanh
The Kabbalah was first taught by God himself to a select company of angels, who formed a theosophic school in Paradise. View quote
Christian David Ginsburg
Some for the Glories of This World; and some Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come; Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum! View quote
Edward FitzGerald (poet)
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow! View quote
Edward FitzGerald (poet)
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise. View quote
Victor Hugo
Some kind of contact with earth, however second hand or muffled, is still a prime necessity of humankind. We each of us have our own particular earthly paradise, a spot on earth for which our thoughts turn while our bodies are far distant, as the one place in all the world we would rather be.. View quote
Flora Thompson
In that privileged place, reality and the sublime dimension almost come together. My mystical paradise begins in the plains of the Empordà, is surrounded by the Alberes hills, and reaches plenitude in the bay of Cadaqués. This land is my permanent inspiration. The only place in the world, too, where I feel loved. When I painted that rock that I entitled 'The Great Masturbator', I did nothing more than render homage to one of the promontories of my kingdom, and my painting was a hymn to one of the jewels of my crown. (Salvador Dalí)
A little while ago I took a nap under an olive tree, and the color harmonies I saw were so touching. It's like a paradise you have no right to analyze, but you are a painter, for God's sake! Nice is so beautiful! Alight so soft and tender, despite its brilliance. View quote
Henri Matisse
Music's playin' up and down the block Mostly Christian, Blues, Country, Folk, and Southern Rock It's our little piece of paradise way out here in the woods There is always somethin' goin' on down in the trailerhood. View quote
Toby Keith
Both looked back then on the wild revelry... and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Children are the keys of paradise. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible. View quote
Max Müller
It is impossible for us in words to describe the ineffable dignity of the soul, and we cannot in any way comprehend it. If we had here with us a human being in his primal nobility, pure as Adam in paradise in his natural state apart from grace, his simple nature unadorned - that person would be so luminous and pure, so ravishing and richly favoured by God that no one would be able to comprehend his purity nor with his reason conceive of it. View quote
Johannes Tauler
No thought for the hereafter have the wise, for on this very earth they live in paradise. View quote
Angelus Silesius
Unless you find paradise at your own center, there is not the smallest chance That you may enter. View quote
Angelus Silesius
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. View quote
Angelus Silesius
The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty. (John Carroll)
As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape. View quote
John Lancaster Spalding
A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus' shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. This storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress. View quote
Walter Benjamin
I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God. View quote
John Green (author)
Old man look at my life, Twenty four And there's so much more Live alone in a paradise That makes me think of two. View quote
Neil Young