Quotes
Quotes about Paradise
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.
Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of paradise. -Mark Twain.
There was King Bradmond's palace, Was never none richer, the story says: For all the windows and the walls Were painted with gold, both towers and halls; Pillars and doors all were of brass; Windows of latten were set with glass; It was so rich in many wise, That it was like a paradise.
Yea, at that very moment Consideration like an angel came And whipped th' offending Adam out of him, Leaving his body as a paradise T' envelop and contain celestial spirits.
But when the sun in all his state, Illumed the eastern skies, She passed through glory's morning gate, And walked in Paradise.
Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.
A jade curtain of willow fronds parts world of green earth from that of blue pond A grey curtain of morning mist separates turquoise waters from blue sky A more slender veil is at the portal hiding the paradise of the immortal.
If God hath made this world so fair, Where sin and death abound, How beautiful beyond compare Will paradise be found!.
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
But in come canine Paradise Your wraith, I know, rebukes the moon, And quarters every plain and hill, Seeking its master. . . . As for me This prayer at least the gods fulfill That when I pass the flood and see Old Charon by Stygian coast Take toll of all the shades who land, Your little, faithful barking ghost May leap to lick my phantom hand.
For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.
England is a paradise for women, and hell for horses: Italy is a paradise for horses, hell for women.
Seek the Infinite, for that alone is Joy unlimited, imperishable, unfailing, self-sustaining, unconditioned, timeless. When you have this joy, human life becomes a paradise; the light, the grace, the power, the perfections of that which is highest in your inner consciousness, appear in your everyday life.
Not in mine eyes alone in Paradise.
There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies blow; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do grow. There cherries grow that none may buy, Till cherry ripe themselves do cry.
Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
My twin and I were wombmates and then roommates. Some day our bodies will be tombmates. (as their souls will be together with those of their husbands in paradise).
Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened--Man's forgiveness give and take!
Domestic Happiness, thou only bliss Of Paradise that hast survived the Fall!
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
Thou hast the keys of Paradise, O just, subtle, and mighty opium!
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern!--holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!
But through the heart Should Jealousy its venom once diffuse, 'Tis then delightful misery no more, But agony unmix'd, incessant gall, Corroding every thought, and blasting all Love's paradise.
Patience is the key to paradise.
