Quotes About Paradise

Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away. Pleasure is the flower that fades, remembrance is the lasting perfume. Remembrances last longer than present realities; I have preserved blossoms for many years, but never fruits.

Utopia: a synonym for oblivion.

How rare were the tears of a dragon. We once lived in paradise and because of the corruption of an angel disgused as a dragon, all the world was cast into darkness. Now, as humans, we shed many tears-for what was lost, for what might of been, and for the end of friendships. Goodbye my true friends.

Her heart consenteth before her lips say: Yea; and in this interval lieth her Paradise; wherefore she would prolong it.

In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad...How can'st thou endure without being mad?

I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.

I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

Well, well; no more. In no Paradise myself, I am impatient of all misery in others that is not mad. Thou should'st go mad, black-smith; say, why dost thou not go mad? How can'st thou endure without being mad? Do the heavens yet hate thee, that thou can'st not go mad? - What wert thou making there?

The Church finally seeks to make complete idiots out of the mass and to make them forego the paradise on earth by promising a fictitious heaven.

our long-lost paradise with all the aching, poison-sweet memories it holds

An old friend of mine, a journalist, once said that paradise on earth was to work all day alone in anticipation of an evening in interesting company.

Wasted time in beautiful places, lingering joyfully just inside the gates of paradise with the world's colours aflame, always regretting the setting sun and the call home, the Edenic expulsion into the next day and its usual concerns.

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.

Found my tropical paradise here in Bali.

On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.

I think I need to film something tropical on a beach in a bar.

Bermuda is not even tropical. The charm of the tropics - the heat, the chaos - is not there.

What was incredible about the Maldives was that the entire island we were on consisted of sand. There didn't seem to be any dirt. You could walk around for hours barefoot with your white trousers skimming the ground, and they'd still be pristine white.

If we could make our house a home, and then make it a sanctuary, I think we could truly find paradise on Earth.

The Maldives is truly a paradise on Earth.

I always said that if they have a golf course like this in heaven, I want to be the head pro.

I truly enjoyed Greece - Santorini. That's somewhere that I always want to be.

Heaven is a place where you can get all you want of whatever you like. Heaven is not the end: it's only the beginning.

Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain … empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.