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Quotes About Paradise

Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words 'straight', 'square', and 'flat' the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture
~ Isak Dinesen
England is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, anomalies, hobbies and humours.
~ George Santayana
The royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea.
~ William Shakespeare
The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
~ Anonymous
A heaven on earth.
~ John Milton
My entire schedule gets turned around for 'The Bachelor' and 'Bachelor in Paradise.'
~ Camilla Luddington
I greatly enjoyed the Hawaiian Islands. They are a real little paradise in spite of the influx of Americans who have made it one of their most pleasant 'centers of resort': the soft climate and luxuriance of the tropics; the greenness, the fragrance, the flowers - extraordinary flowers covering the tallest trees and turning them into huge bouquets.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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.
~ Golshifteh Farahani
Harbour Island in the Bahamas is beautiful, with turquoise water and pink sand.
~ Diane von Furstenberg
After twelve years of living in Hawaii, I'd gotten a serious case of 'rock fever.' I just couldn't live on an island any longer.
~ Tess Gerritsen
Idle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make.
~ Susan Ertz
There is only the stunningly fragile human body, a holy creation capable of loving with such astonishing strength but which is weak to the curses of a fallen world. We are like butterflies, delicate and wonderful, here on earth for only a brilliant moment and then away we fly. Death is appointed to merely close the door to our suffering and open wide the gate to Paradise.
~ Susan Meissner
Golden ages have no shade of grey.
~ Susan Neiman
I'm always sad to leave paradise, but I leave behind the hopes of coming again soon.
~ Irina Shayk
If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.
~ Bruno Mars
I think Mustique is Duchampian - it will always provide an endless source of delight.
~ David Bowie
Heaven without love : what a hell. (Paradis sans amour : voilà ce qu'est l'enfer)
~ Charles de Leusse
Through the veil of Love, one finds the heaven on Earth
~ Himanshu Chhabra
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and ThouBeside me singing in the Wilderness -And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
~ Omar Khayyam
Sometimes when the world goes dark, and everyone turns their backs on you, just look to the sky to see the light, and follow the stars to paradise
~ Timothy Norr
Oh, I told Once, and I told you Twice, Stay here With me In my Paradise I need you I miss you More and more Each day
~ Sami Abouzid
Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!
~ Alice Walker
Neither the front nor the back entrance of the Custom-House opens on the road to Paradise
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne