Quotes About Paradise

while the northerners offered a utopia that could be found nowhere, the southerners had created a Fantasia that could be experienced everywhere

Even if you are in paradise, it is still hell if you are all alone.

There are people in the world who deserve paradise for their thoughts and hell for their deeds.

That happy place, the green groves of the dwelling of the blest.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

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.

In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise.

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

Man and woman, in a world without suffering, chose against God.

In a sense, Job must replay the original test of the garden of Eden, with the bar raised higher. Living in paradise, Adam and Eve faced a best-case scenario for trusting God, who asked so little of them and showered down blessings. In a living hell, Job faces the worst-case scenario: God asks so much, while curses rain down on him.

The soul takes flight to the world that is invisible but there arriving she is sure of bliss and forever dwells in paradise.

You know, sweetheart, the thing I most regret is that we never got to have that house by the lake that you and I talked about so often. It sounds like paradise, doesn't it? I can almost see it, you sitting on the porch in the moonlight, watching the lake at night. That image gives me peace. I hope you're not sharing it with anyone else but me.

I don't see what's so "romantic" about spending a week in a tropical paradise with your spouse whom you've already seen almost every day for the past quarter century.

Because utopias always turn out to be one version of hell or another.

Dawn breaks / And blossoms open / Gates of paradise.

utopias always turn out to be one version of hell or another.

The best sex takes us somewhere. Somewhere warm and expansive, a paradise of lust and happiness. Sex is and can be and should be but only very rarely is an act of communion with something bigger than ourselves. Men fuck and women make love, people say, but we men make love when we fuck a woman we adore: it's the same thing to us. We mean it sincerely. I had places inside me only Cathy could fill with her body, and I made her happy with my body more than I ever thought I could.

I answered instantly, pointing out that in order to accept this proof that Elvis was in Paradise in 1958, we first have to accept life after death, Paradise, ghosts, all of that. Mark answered a couple of days later, I smile and shrug. Life after death, ghosts, Paradise, eternity—of course, we take all that as granted. Otherwise where's the fun?

Life after death, ghosts, Paradise, eternity--of course, we take all that as granted. Otherwise where's the fun?

I put a hand up to cup his cheek, warm and lightly stubbled. I didn't fool myself that this was paradise or even a refuge from the war - wars tended not to stay in one place but moved around, much in the manner of cyclones and even more destructive where they touched down. But for however long it lasted, this was home, and now was peace.

so he died, at the conclusion of an eminently useful life, and thus obtained his crown in Paradise.

The story detailed all of his works, and then concluded in these words—'And so he died, at the conclusion of an eminently useful life, and thus obtained his crown in Paradise.' " She paused, flexing her hands lightly on her knees. "There was something about that that appealed most strongly to me. 'An eminently useful life.' " She smiled at me. "I could think of many worse epitaphs than that, milady.

My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

Righteousness, according to Mencius, is a straight and narrow path which a man ought to take to regain the lost paradise.