Quotes About Paradise

The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.

Adam laid himself down in Paradise to sleep While from him was taken a wife to keep. Adam poor father of creations best Your first taste of sleep was your last of rest.

I've learned a lot about women. I think I've learned exactly how the fall of man occured in the Garden of Eden. Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden, and Adam said one day, Wow, Eve, here we are, at one with nature, at one with God, we'll never age, we'll never die, and all our dreams come true the instant that we have them. And Eve said, Yeah... it's just not enough is it?

Women made us lose paradise, but how frequently we find it again in their arms.

If love had a way, it would have ruled the earth and made paradise right here.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as a celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

Ah, Shiraz! What a town! The rose gardens, the nightingales. Paradise. You know, I got a hold of some wine while I was there. I'll never forget that bouquet." Julian cleared his throat. " 'Rose petals let us scatter and fill the cup with red wine, the firmaments let us shatter and come with a new design.' " He lifted his glass in a toast to Hafez's ode to the fermented grape. Marjan met his toast with her own glass.

According to the Revelation the differences between one degree and another are vaster in the next world than in this: 'Behold how We have favoured some of them above others; and verily the Hereafter is greater in degrees and greater in hierarchic precedences.' And the Prophet said: "The people of Paradise will behold the high place that is above them even as they now behold the bright planet on the eastern or western horizon.

To Fatimah he said: "Thou art the highest of the women of the people of Paradise, excepting only the Virgin Mary, daughter of 'Imran." In prediction of the great part to be played by 'Ali as one of the chief transmitters of his wisdom to future generations, he said: "I am the city of knowledge, and 'Ali is its gate"; and he said in general: "My Companions are even as the stars: whichsoever of them ye follow, ye shall be rightly guided.

Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God.

I had drunk so deeply of grief and innocently gambled so hard with fate and irony that a special kind of vision was gathering in my eyes, not entirely clear just yet. This was the same look people saw in your eyes when you have died for beauty and come to live accepting nature as life with no promise of paradise, and mad at people who couldn't see that.

Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise.' William Blake (1757-1827)

As [in paradise] God created people [that people] [72] might create God,91 so also in this world people make gods and worship what they have created. It would be more fitting for gods to worship people.

Paradise is always where love dwells.

These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.

It all came back. Yes, it came back. For the last two months it had ceased to be; it had been blotted out—hidden, forgotten; there had been no such thing. An enchanter's wand had been waved above that dreary square-built house in the dusty lane, and a fairy palace had arisen for her habitation; a fairy-land of beauty and splendour had spread itself around her, a paradise in which she wandered hand in hand with a demigod.

He read up on Jillian Abernathy, the acid attack, and Elysium. Then he looked up the definition of the word. ELYSIUM: ANY PLACE OR CONDITION OF IDEAL BLISS OR COMPLETE HAPPINESS, PARADISE. Good name for a spa, he thought. Then he read the second definition. IN GREEK MYTHOLOGY, A PLACE ASSIGNED TO VIRTUOUS PEOPLE AFTER DEATH.

The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth.

And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.

Santa Barbara is pleasant. It's heaven, but with a bit more traffic.

in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.

We weren't there to take over, we were there, in our own minds, to discover . And yet we had done what so often happened in the proud history of geographic discovery. We had found paradise. And then we had set it on fire.

Y luego la entropía entra en escena, por supuesto. Se pierde el paraíso. Babel y el diluvio traen confusión y desorden; lo que era una elegante jerarquía se convierte en un caos de tribus y naciones.