Best 393 quotes in «paradise quotes» category

It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise.

It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

It's only a wonderful world if you can make it that way. There are no street signs pointing to Paradise Road.

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

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.

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

Key West for me was a tropical island paradise.

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.

Man hovers between Paradise and the Pit.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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 a state of mind.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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