Quotes on Paradise

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

Author: Laurie Anderson

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

Author: Dario Argento

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Author: W. Auden

The symbolic view of things is a consequence of long absorption in images. Is sign language the real language of Paradise?

Author: Hugo Ball

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.

Author: Jean Baudrillard

Paradise is open to all kind hearts.

Author: Pierre Beranger

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp.

Author: John Berry

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Author: Erma Bombeck

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Author: Jorge Borges

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

Author: Emile Cioran

If you are nice, and keep your promise, we will be in paradise.

Author: Camille Claudel

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Author: Christopher Columbus

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

Author: Ray Conniff

A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell.

Author: Esther Dyson

Your library is your paradise.

Author: Desiderius Erasmus

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

Author: David Geffen

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

Author: David Hilbert

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

Author: Victor Hugo

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Author: Samuel Johnson

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Author: Nikita Khrushchev

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

Author: Nikita Khrushchev

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

Author: Doug Larson

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

Author: Charles Leland

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.

Author: Novalis

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

Author: Jean Paul

The only paradise is paradise lost.

Author: Marcel Proust

I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.

Author: Jean Rostand

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

Author: George Russell

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

Author: George Santayana

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

Author: Charles Secondat

As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.

Author: John Spalding

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

Author: William Thackeray

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Author: Voltaire

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

Author: Evelyn Waugh

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

Author: Simone Weil