Quotes About Paradise

Paradise of Lailah Gifty Akita is reading, wondering and writing.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced.

Equality would be a heaven, if we could attain it.

Prison is a Socialist paradise where equality prevails, everything is supplied, and competition is eliminated.

Néanmoins, une partie de moi était lasse d'être aussi craintive et respectueuse, de contempler le paradis en se demandant ce qu'on lui autoriserait.

You gave me back the paradise That I thought I lost for good You helped me find the reasons why It took me by surprise that you understood You knew all along What I never wanted to say Until I learned to love myself I was never ever lovin' anybody else.

The only paradise we know through our senses and intuition is that of the beloved, and the only hell, disappointment in love.

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold — Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems (University of California Press; 0 edition, January 6, 2003)

He was safe here; this was the place he loved - sanctuary, the paradise of his despair.

A journey on a day that you could say was my idea of heaven.

Maman chérie dont je n'imagine pas, dans mon paradis enfantin, qu'on puisse un jour me séparer.

If you have seen in silent prayer How the soul of the earth fashions crystals, If you have seen the flame in the growing seed And death in life and birth in decay, If you have found brothers in men and beasts, And if you recognized in the brother, the brother and God, Then you will celebrate at the table of the holy grail Communion with the messiah of love. You will search and you will find, just like God said, The way to the lost paradise.

we know perfectly well that all was not paradise at the time of our earliest loves; what we wish for, even in knowing the vanity of this wish, is to return there now with our emptiness, our desires, and our imagination.

the king not only the promise of future paradise and life everlasting,

The only paradise is paradise lost.

The true paradises are paradises we have lost.

The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost.

The only true paradise is paradise lost

Les vrais paradis sont les paradis qu'on a perdus.

I veri paradisi sono i paradisi che abbiamo perduto.

Omul viseaz? mult despre rai, sau mai degrab? desper numeroase raiuri succesive, dar toate sunt chiar înainte de a muri ni?te paradisuri pierdute sau în care s-au sim?it pierdu?i.

We dream much of Paradise, or rather of a number of successive Paradises, but each of them is, long before we die, a Paradise lost, in which we should feel ourselves lost also.

Immortal amarant, a flower which once In paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom; but soon for man's offence To heaven removed, where first it grew, there grows, And flowers aloft, shading the fount of life, And where the river of bliss through midst of heaven Rolls o'er elysian flowers her amber stream: With these that never fade the spirits elect Bind their resplendent locks.