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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

John Milton famously claimed, "Fame is the spur" for the poet, and indeed when we consider the six years he spent writing Paradise Lost, and the additional years revising it, from 1664 to 1674, we may allow that spur.

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

Many people [still] believe that at the time of your death, 1,000 Buddhas show up and welcome you into the paradise state.

Memory is a paradise out of which fate cannot drive us.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise.

Must I thus leave thee, Paradise?-thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades?

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

Nor count compartments of the floors, But mount to paradise By the stairway of surprise.

My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not thine everlasting beauty.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

Our notion of what makes a paradise always returns to the image of a beautiful and fruitful garden.

O fleeting joys Of Paradise, dear bought with lasting woes!

Once for all beloved children, the surest, easiest, shortest way is by the Eucharist. It is so easy to approach the holy table, and there we taste the joys of Paradise

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.

Paradise is to love many things with a passion.

Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.

Paradise is always where love dwells.

Paradise is not something unique; there are so many paradises in the universe; Earth is one of them!

Paradise is not the place you go when you die. Paradise is when your mind is in a perfect state.

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

Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

Paradise is a state of mind.

Pity that the only way to paradise is in a hearse.

Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away.

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Scripture brought me to the Gate of Paradise, and the mind stood in wonder as it entered.

Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!

Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.

Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise.

Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.

So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.

South Carolina is in the spring a paradise, in the summer a hell, and in the autumn a hospital.

Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again.

Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.

The cultural products of America from this period [ fifties and sixties] are like a vision of paradise or something. I find it utterly intoxicating.

Stories of a mythical angel paradise called an Angelopolis are like Peter Pan's Never Never Land.

Then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.

The loves that meet in Paradise shall cast out fear, And Paradise hath room for you and me and all.

...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise

The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so.

The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost.