Paradise Quotes

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Henry David Thoreau

Head, Clouds, Breathe

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

Nothing, Miserable, Photo

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
Paulo Coelho

Love, Hell, Takes

An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo

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

Made, Hell, Hearts

Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
Victor Hugo

Love, Nature, Soul

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell

Happiness, Today, Others

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

Library, Imagined

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!
Thomas Fuller

Wise, Fool, Hell

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.
Marco Rubio

Government, Live, Long

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.
Tommy Douglas

Earth, Fish, Ocean

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

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

Book, Hard, Lost

The only paradise is paradise lost.
Marcel Proust

Graphic design is the paradise of individuality, eccentricity, heresy, abnormality, hobbies and humors.
George Santayana

Design, Hobbies, Graphic

He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
Abu Bakr

God, Allah, Him

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
Simone Weil

Real, Hell, Imaginary

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
Milan Kundera

Jealousy, Evil, Dogs

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Him, Through, Soul

Your library is your paradise.
Desiderius Erasmus

Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.
George Santayana

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
William Penn

Good, End, Sure

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Karl Popper

Hell, Earth, Promise

The first pages of memory are like the old family Bible. The first leaves are wholly faded and somewhat soiled with handling. But, when we turn further, and come to the chapters where Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise, then, all begins to grow clear and legible.
Max Muller

Family, Old, Memory

Vampires are sexy to a woman perhaps because the fantasy is similar to that of the man on the white horse sweeping her off to paradise.
Frank Langella

Sexy, Woman, Her

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Emile M. Cioran

Nothing, Democracy, Nation

Children are the keys of paradise.
Eric Hoffer

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.
Doug Larson

Two, Three, Luxury

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
Augustus Hare

Good, Home, Among

Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.
Horace Mann

Truth, Lost, Light

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