Quotes About Paradise

I've been to paradise. But I've never been to me.

was headed for Nebraska. Now there's a sentence you don't want to have to say too often if you can possibly help it. Nebraska must be the most unexciting of all the states. Compared with it, Iowa is paradise. Iowa at least is fertile and green and has a hill. Nebraska is like a 75,000-square-mile bare patch.

This is the beginning. Almost anything can happen. This is where you find the creation of light, a fish wriggling onto land, the first word of Paradise Lost on an empty page. Think of an egg, the letter A, a woman ironing on a bare stage as the heavy curtain rises. This is the very beginning. (from his poem, 'Aristotle')

If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.

If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise Remind me to show you the scars

Todo, en aquellos años, era distinto; hasta el sabor del sueño (yo, quizá, nunca fui plenamente feliz, pero es sabido que la desventura requiere paraísos perdidos.) No hay hombre que no aspire a la plentiud, es decir a la suma de experiencias de que un hombre es capaz. No hay hombre que no tema ser defraudado de alguna parte de ese patrimonio infinito.

she can share it with all who come to her for comfort, hope, and the joy of this land I live in, this Home that waits for everyone, this busy, perfect paradise called The Other Side.

I've died and gone to heaven

You and me on a deserted tropical island where you'd be perpetually naked and I could slide into you at any moment. I set one hand on my hip and shot him a look. "Sunburned and bowlegged. Sexy.

Sunday - the doctor's paradise! Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in yachts, doctors everywhere resolutely being people, not doctors.

If they wed this evening, we can let them have at least one night to imagine themselves in Paradise, before the walls of Montargo and Chenti come smashing down round their poor little ears and they know themselves in Hell instead.

A true world is a destination; a destination such that to reach it is to enter…a state of 'eternal bliss', a heaven, paradise, or utopia. Hence true world philosophies…give meaning to life by representing it as a journey; a journey towards 'redemption, towards an arrival that will more than make up for the stress and discomfort of the traveling.

The archive of supposed photocopies (I.E. memory) actually offers up strange creatures; the green paradise of childhood loves that Baudelaire recalled is for many a future in reverse, an obverse of hope in the face of the gray purgatory of adult loves.

Por qué hemos tenido que inventar el Edén, vivir sumidos en la nostalgia del paraíso perdido, fabricar utopías, proponernos un futuro?

Our task is to create the Civilization of Paradise here on earth. - Asad Ali

The word for paradise is actually "garden" or jannah in Arabic. Paradise is not just something that comes after this earthly life. The Qur'an says, The Garden will be brought near to all those who are in a state of Godconsciousness (Surah ash-Shu'ara 26:90). To all those who deepen in their remembrance, deepen in presence, The Garden will be brought near. (p. 101)

doctrine of the Incarnation requires nothing less. If Christ had merely assumed unfallen human nature, living out his earthly life in the situation of Adam in Paradise, then he would not have been touched with the feeling of our infirmities, nor would he have been tempted in everything exactly as we are. And in that case he would not be our Saviour.

if your head is in the shade of love then surely your feet are in paradise.

I discovered Musha Cay and the islands around it in the Exumas.

I'm always in Jamaica in my fantasies. We have a home there, and it's my special spiritual place where I get re-nourished.

Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.

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.

Dada is like your hopes: nothing like your paradise: nothing like your idols: nothing like your heroes: nothing like your artists: nothing like your religions: nothing

Et il y a des gens qui trouvent que tout cela ne grouille pas assez, qui font des vers, de la poésie, de la surréalité, qui en rajoutent. [...] Les réincarnations, les paradis, les enfers, enfin quoi : après la vie, la mort encore à vivre !