Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return. Votes: 4
Franz KafkaAn Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. Votes: 4
Robert SouthParadise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. Votes: 3
Voltaire Charles-Claude -Florent de Thorel de CampigneullesParadise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. Votes: 3
Laurie AndersonSome people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard. Votes: 3
Arthur LynchAll Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music! Votes: 3
Benjamin DisraeliTo Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise. Votes: 3
Augustus HareI have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon. Votes: 3
Dorothy L. SayersMy Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order. Votes: 3
John PiperHell's only the flip side of Paradise. Sometimes it's hard to differentiate between the two. Votes: 3
Sara CravenA good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying. Votes: 3
F. R. LeavisAll spiritual leaders who live in luxury cannot enter God's Paradise in Heaven. Repent or Perish. Votes: 3
Felix WantangWhen man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell. Votes: 3
Paul ClaudelMust I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades? Votes: 3
John MiltonAll the wealth in this sinful world, cannot buy one second of life in God's Paradise. Votes: 3
Felix WantangAh, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise. Votes: 3
George William RussellHe who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother. Votes: 3
MuhammadDid you know that Allah promises you a seat in Paradise if you kill a Christian? Votes: 3
Quentin CrispYou want Paradise, you gotta build it on war, on blood, on envy and naked greed. Votes: 3
Michel FaberHell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing. Votes: 3
Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of NorfolkIt is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one. Votes: 3
John FlavelI have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. Votes: 3
Charles de SecondatTo hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there. Votes: 3
Vita Sackville-WestI had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise. Votes: 3
Sam ShepardHell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing. Votes: 3
Thomas HowardParadise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire. Votes: 3
RumiWho are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath. Votes: 3
Abu HanifaI'm not sayin' she's a bragger, but if you've been to Paradise, she's got a season ticket. Votes: 3
Willy RussellScripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered. Votes: 3
Ephrem the SyrianTo Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in. Votes: 3
Charles Godfrey LelandParadise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter. Votes: 3
Angelus SilesiusI have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there. Votes: 3
Baron de MontesquieuParadise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road. Votes: 3
Napoleon BonaparteI always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one. Votes: 3
Randy NewmanGod, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in the middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes. Votes: 3
Paulo CoelhoGod, in his infinite wisdom, hid Hell in he middle of Paradise, to keep us on our toes. Votes: 3
Paulo CoelhoParadise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it. Votes: 3
Orison Swett MardenParadise is not something unique; there are so many paradises in the universe; Earth is one of them! Votes: 3
Mehmet Murat ildanParadise is within you, in your state of no-mind. And hell is also within you, in your very mind. Votes: 3
RajneeshDry your eyes O dry your eyes, For I was taught in Paradise To ease my breast of melodies. Votes: 3
John KeatsThe loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all. Votes: 3
Christina RossettiParadise will not be a hall of mirrors, it will be a display of majesty, and it won't be ours Votes: 3
John PiperParadise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state. Votes: 3
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellThe space of the bow of any one of you in Paradise is better than all that the sun rises upon. Votes: 3
MuhammadThe space of the bow of any one of you in Paradise is better than all that the sun rises upon. Votes: 3
MuhammadI don't put a penny's value on this life if only our Lord will give me a tiny corner in Paradise. Votes: 3
Camillus de LellisThe academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. Votes: 2
bell hooksLaziness is the one divine fragment of a godlike existence left to man from paradise. Votes: 2
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelAll paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. Votes: 2
Toni MorrisonI should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. Votes: 2
Jean RostandDogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. Votes: 1
Milan KunderaInsomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. Votes: 1
Emil CioranI'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise. Votes: 1
Thierry HenryHe who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise. Votes: 1
Abu BakrNature allowed only the fit and the lucky to share this paradise-in-the-making. Votes: 0
M.L. StedmanRemembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away. Votes: 0
Charles Francis RichterIf we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts. Votes: 0
Thomas MertonYou should paint those visions of paradise rather than just talking about them. Votes: 0
Paulo CoelhoThose who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawEven the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is inhabitable. Votes: 0
William Ralph IngeConformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise. Votes: 0
Robert M. LindnerThe love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise. Votes: 0
Milan KunderaYou've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there. Votes: 0
George S. KaufmanOccupation was one of the pleasures of paradise, and we cannot be happy without it. Votes: 0
Anna Brownell JamesonI am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment. Votes: 0
Anselm KieferVeracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls. Votes: 0
George EliotNor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonHere is an unspeakable secret: paradise is all around us and we do not understand. Votes: 0
Thomas MertonYour dreams are your destiny.Explore the paradise of dreaming high. You will be amazed. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty Akita...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise Votes: 0
David FairchildTraveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonInsomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. Votes: 0
Emile M. CioranThanksgiving is every day because in this physical body you can spring into eternal paradise. Votes: 0
Roger Delano HinkinsMan has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts. Votes: 0
Konrad LorenzIf everybody lives by the sweat of his brow, the earth will become a paradise. Votes: 0
Mahatma GandhiEngland is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses. Votes: 0
John FlorioStories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land. Votes: 0
Danielle TrussoniThe UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell. Votes: 0
Dag HammarskjoldWhen spring comes to Paris the humblest mortal alive must feel that he dwells in paradise. Votes: 0
Henry Miller..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down. Votes: 0
Harlan CobenRefuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise! Votes: 0
Mehmet Murat ildanIn my version of paradise, the air was always cold and the rivers ran with candy. Votes: 0
Amanda LindhoutMen are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise. Votes: 0
Pat ConroyIf I am happy inside, then I live in paradise no matter where my residence is. Votes: 0
Mac AndersonIt's a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly. Votes: 0
Rebecca MaderYou have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go. Votes: 0
Nikos KazantzakisHawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there. Votes: 0
Bruno MarsRight now, in this dusty anti-paradise, I have absolutely no hand in the future at all. Votes: 0
Carla H. KruegerA wife is a gift bestowed upon a man to reconcile him to the loss of paradise. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. Votes: 0
Emile M. CioranAlmost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise. Votes: 0
Henry MitchellA great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise. Votes: 0
Amit KalantriThrough the sunset of hope, Like the shapes of a dream, What paradise islands of glory gleam! Votes: 0
Percy Bysshe ShelleyIdle to pretend that we have lost paradise. We never had it; it is still to make. Votes: 0
Susan ErtzWe lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. Votes: 0
Gloria SwansonGod has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise. Votes: 0
George Bernard ShawA marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. Votes: 0
Emile M. CioranSo after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana. Votes: 0
Richard PryorThough it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night I can see paradise by the dashboard light. Votes: 0
Jim SteinmanOur notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden. Votes: 0
Jeff CoxThis is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always. Votes: 0
Byron KatieIf we take judging ourselves and others out of our life, we will mostly be living in paradise. Votes: 0
Harbhajan Singh YogiA man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world. Votes: 0
Jim MorrisonI mean only that I hope they find darkness or paradise without fear of it, if they can. Votes: 0
Erin MorgensternIt is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. Votes: 0
Fyodor DostoevskyWhen we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise. Votes: 0
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieSouth Carolina is in the spring a paradise, in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital. Votes: 0
Eliza LucasIf you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars. Votes: 0
Bob DylanI have no idea of the future -- never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now. Votes: 0
Karl Lagerfeldi have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side. Votes: 0
David LevithanOne of the most magical places on Earth is a small island in the Caribbean called Mustique. With brilliant beaches, warm water, and lush vegetation, this tiny green swath of land is my idea of paradise. Votes: 1 Nina Garcia
The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. Votes: 3 John Berry
I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it. Votes: 1 Maeve Binchy
I always loved fish for the colors and birds for the plumage. In the same way, I loved those women of the cabaret. They were birds of paradise. Votes: 0 Christian Louboutin
Finally found my paradise...on a beach in Clearwater. When I die ring the bells and bury me at sea...a few steps from my home! Votes: 1 Timothy Pina
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. Votes: 3 Karl Popper
Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise. Votes: 3 Ralph Waldo Emerson