Paradise Quotations

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.

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.

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.

Paradise Is exactly like Where you are right now Only much much Better.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise,

Im not really a tropical paradise kind of person.

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

For me, Iran was paradise, and I believe it's a paradise still, but only if you don't have political problems. If you have a political problem, paradise turns into hell.

I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

If you can visualize the whole of spring and see Paradise with the eye of belief, you may understand the utter majesty of everlasting Beauty. If you respond to that Beauty with the beauty of belief and worship, you will be a most beautiful creature.

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

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.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

By aiming for paradise, we lose sight of earth. Hope of a beyond and aspiration to an afterlife engender a sense of futility in the present. If the prospect of getting taken up to paradise generates joy, it is the mindless joy of a baby picked up from his crib.

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.

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.

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it's like this little paradise on Earth.

The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.

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.

Where choice begins, Paradise ends, innocence ends, for what is Paradise but the absence of any need to choose this action?

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

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.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

The music for me is paradise. I think it's where God lives.

America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

I do love one-upmanship sometimes, like when you see kids breakdancing and who can do the best tricks. It's common, it's in our nature as animals, like the birds of paradise who've got the best feathers and that sort of stuff. But it's fun when it's impulsive and it's about fun.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.

He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise.

The Gulf Coast has the potential to create a culinary raw ingredient paradise that smart cooks can capitalize on.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a notional future paradise - if you'd be good enough to lie down under the wheels of the juggernaut - that sentimental and self-aggrandising rationalisation for brute force and cowardice I felt from adolescence was wrong.

When you arrive in England for football it's a paradise.

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.

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.

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

We absolutely love it. It's made the whole backyard a paradise in Mason.

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

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.

Your library is your paradise.

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.

There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown.

The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.

He who makes a paradise of his bread makes a hell of his hunger.

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.

The Indians knew that life was equated with the earth and its resources, that America was a paradise, and they could not comprehend why the intruders from the East were determined to destroy all that was Indian as well as America itself.

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.

What we have here is paradise compared to what we have in Mexico. We have everything we need.

Gun shows, simply put, have become a paradise for illegal firearms sales because felons frequent gun shows to avoid having to go through a background check.

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, / A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou / Beside me singing in the Wilderness- / And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

Paradoxically, perhaps, there seems nothing enduring to be gained in terms of meaningful life change purely from leisure, from having a great time. If you or I could redesign the world we'd certainly do it very differently, so that every time we took a magic vacation at some tropical paradise we would return full of more wisdom than the World Encyclopedia of Philosophical Quotations. Until then, we are well advised to accept the reality that the great lessons in life usually come to us through some form of extreme hardship.

Paradise is seldom recognized as such until it is considered from the outside.

Our memories are the only paradise from which we can never be expelled.

Surfers Paradise has a great atmosphere and the circuit is very challenging. It's incredible that we have gone 14 years without a two-time winner, but I guess that is testimony to how tough the place really is.

It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. It is obviously much easier to find inhabitants for an inferno or even a purgatorio.

To lepers and to outcasts thou dost show - that passion is the paradise below

As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking man.

...the fall of man in paradise has always been followed by his expulsion.

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.

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.

Twas beyond a mortal's share To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.

Eden, paradise - all the best gardens are imaginary.

This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century.

Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.

Paradise is a state of mind.

The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes ... The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.

Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.

The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.

In my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy.

The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away and the paradise which is yet to come.

What you see at the Field Museum is only like, 10 percent of the collection. It's birds of paradise and passenger pigeons and in all these drawers that pull out, these specimens come out and it's spectacular. And it worked out.

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.