Quotes About Paradise

Hawaii was beautiful of course, we played at Turtle Bay an amazing resort right on the ocean.

Organized religions are just elaborate con-tricks. Take the Christian religion from which yours is an offshoot: "Obey me throughout your life, give me the product of your labour, and you will go to Paradise when you die. Disobey me and you will go to Hell and burn forever. Of course I cannot prove that this is what will actually happen – you just have to have faith." That was a good one, and it worked well enough in a society that still believed the Earth was flat.

Don't blame; only resolve. It is not man and the earth at their loveliest, but you practising the art of revision make paradise. The evidence of this truth can lie only in your own experience of it. Try revising the day. It is to the pruning shears of revision that we owe our prime fruit.

Wir wollen hier auf Erden schon das Himmelreich errichten'. Aber welches denn Heine? Das sozialistische Paradies, von dem sie in der Konsumgesellschaft träumen, oder die Konsumgesellschaft, von der sie im sozialistischen Paradies träumen?

Der moderne Mensch versucht mit der Unzucht, der Gewalt und der Niederträchtigkeit die Unschuld eines höllischen Paradieses zu schaffen.

If it is merely a matter of organizing an earthly paradise, curates are more than enough. The devil will do.

Heinrich Heine: "Wir wollen hier auf Erden schon das Himmelreich errichten." Aber welches denn, Heine? Das sozialistische Paradies, von dem sie in der Konsumgesellschaft träumen, oder die Konsumgesellschaft, von der sie im sozialistischen Paradies träumen.

Heinrich Heine: "We want to establish the kingdom of heaven here on earth." But which one, Heine? The socialist paradise they dream of in consumer society, or the consumer society they dream of in socialist paradise. — Nicolás Gómez Dávila.

Heinrich Heine: "We want to establish the kingdom of heaven here on earth." But which one, Heine? The socialist paradise they dream of in consumer society, or the consumer society they dream of in socialist paradise.

Earth will never be a paradise, but it could perhaps be prevented from coming closer and closer to being a vulgar imitation of hell.

I think of the separation between life and Paradise as a river," Mirdin said. "If there are many bridges that cross the river, should it be of great concern to God which bridge the traveler chooses?

You of all people would know people who commit suicide... can't go to the paradise of the stars. Even if you did commit a horrible crime... you have to live! You can't just give up and die! You have to live and atone for your wrongs!

Paradise is scattered over the whole earth, and that is why it has become so unrecognizable.

The child in each of us Knows paradise. Paradise is home. Home as it was Or home as it should have been. Paradise is one's own place, One's own people, One's own world, Knowing and known, Perhaps even Loving and loved. Yet every child Is cast from paradise— Into growth and destruction, Into solitude and new community, Into vast, ongoing Change.

After all, the Jewish historian Josephus maintains the world was created in the autumn, at the autumn equinox. A reasonable notion, since of course there were fruits in paradise; given the apple hanging from the tree, it must indeed have been autumn…

the tree of the cross, which has become the tree of life, secretly identifies the earth with paradise and gives proof once again of the sacramental nature of things.

What are you doing tonight?" "I don't know, what are you doing?" Burlesque! Loew's Paradise! Miserable and lonely! Miserable and lonely and stupid! What am I, crazy or something?! I got something good! What am I hanging around with you guys for?!

As for other kinds of intoxicants, I had suspected without being certain that Louki used some, with certain members of the group. All the same, nothing in her eyes or her attitude would lead you to believe that she escaped to synthetic paradises.

Do we hate paradise so much we need to make sure it becomes a trash heap?

In a place of all this beauty and potential, we just repeat the same mistakes. Do we hate paradise so much we have to be sure it becomes a trash heap?

there is only this world and that numbing routines and brief squabbles and financial worries are an essential part of it, that in spite of the aches and boredomes and disappointments, living in this world is the closest we will ever come to seeing paradise.

The impediment to the building of Babel—that man must fill the earth—would be eliminated. At that moment it would again be possible for the whole earth to be of one language and one speech. And if that were to happen, paradise could not be far behind.

We enter into paradise when, in contemplation, we enter into awareness of the Overself.

When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.