Paradise Quotes - page 2

Traveling is a fool's paradise... I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there besides me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor. View quote
Victor Hugo
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. View quote
Victor Hugo
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. View quote
Karl Popper
..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down. View quote
Harlan Coben
Paradise is too perfect for humanity. View quote
Dario Argento
I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia. View quote
Marguerite Young
Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited.... What a Eutopia - What a Paradise would this region be! View quote
John Adams
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith's usual result. View quote
William James
Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere. View quote
Paulo Coelho
Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise. (Georg Büchner)
I have tried to write Paradise Do not move Let the wind speak. that is paradise. Let the Gods forgive what I have made Let those I love try to forgive what I have made. View quote
Ezra Pound
The imperfect is our paradise. View quote
Wallace Stevens
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise - when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter. View quote
Jessamyn West
Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The danger which threatens us comes from Labour...Those who think that the Conservative or Unionist Party, standing as such and disavowing its Liberal allies, could return with a working majority are living in a fools paradise and, if they persist, may easily involve themselves and the country in dangers the outcome of which it is hard to predict. View quote
Austen Chamberlain
Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise. View quote
Emil Cioran
Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough. View quote
Emil Cioran
The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It is a region of Light and Peace, did not man disquiet it. It is the Paradise of God. View quote
Thomas Traherne
Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative. (Yevgeny Zamyatin)
To cleave that sea in the gentle autumnal season, murmuring the name of each islet, is to my mind the joy most apt to transport the heart of man into paradise. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. View quote
F. R. Leavis
England is a paradise for women and hell for horses; Italy a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the diverb goes. View quote
Robert Burton