Paradise is too perfect for humanity. — Dario Argento
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. — John Milton
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. — Voltaire
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell. — Sayings
..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down. — Harlan Coben
Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers. — John Milton
To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in. — Charles Godfrey Leland
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.. — John Milton
Man wasn't made to inherit Paradise without effort. Rather, he was made to conquer Paradise, after proving his worthiness of it. — Mustafa Mahmud
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! — Omar Khayyam
Short Paradise Lost Quotes
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man. — A. E. Housman
beyond this place of wrath and tears looms but the horror of the shade — William Ernest Henley
Heaven but the vision of fulfilled desire, and Hell the shadow from a soul on fire. — Omar Khayyam
Now deep in ocean sunk the lamp of light, And drew behind the cloudy vale of night. — Homer
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well. — Laini Taylor
Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy. — Virgil
If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell. — Saint Augustine
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in. — Toni Morrison
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Paradise Lost Image Quotes
Just because my path is different doesn't mean I'm lost.
Paradise Lost Book 9 Quotes
All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield. — John Milton
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds. — John Milton
Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep. — John Milton
I lost myself trying to please everyone else. Now I'm losing everyone while I'm finding myself.
Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. — John Milton
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils. — John Milton
And out of good still to find means of evil. — John Milton
We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we have lost our connection to ourselves.
So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life. — John Milton
Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible. — John Milton
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. — John Milton
Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress. — John Milton
Paradise Lost Book 2 Quotes
Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light. — John Milton
Eloquence the soul, song charms the senses. — John Milton
On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder. — John Milton
Always tell someone how you feel, because opportunities are lost in the blink of an eye but regrets can last for a lifetime.
So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he. — John Milton
With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded. — John Milton
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. — John Milton
Paradise is not a place, its a state of mind.
Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. — John Milton
For contemplation he and valour formed; / For softness she and sweet attractive grace, / He for God only, she for God in him: / His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule. — John Milton
Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. — John Milton
Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements. — John Milton
Paradise Lost Book 1 Quotes
What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support,
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men. 1
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22. — John Milton
Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. — John Milton
Here we may reign secure; and in my choice
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. — John Milton
As in an organ from one blast of wind
To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes. — John Milton
From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,- A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropp'd from the Zenith like a falling star. — John Milton
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.
Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both. — John Milton
To adore the conqueror, who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood. — John Milton
So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe. — John Milton
Where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes,
That comes to all. — John Milton
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. — Henry Van Dyke
I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost. — Henning Mankell
A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world. — Jim Morrison
Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love. — Anais Nin
The garden [of Eden] is the realm of pure beauty from which man is expelled when he becomes interested in ethics, in the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. The return into paradise, the homecoming, depends on him penetrating the veils of morality to glimpse again the lineaments of lost beauty. — John Carroll
Formerly Milton's Paradise Lost had been my chief favourite, and in my excursions during the voyage of the Beagle, when I could take only a single small volume, I always chose Milton. — Charles Darwin
The only paradise is paradise lost. — Marcel Proust
The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal. — Susan Cain
A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him. — Eugene Ionesco
All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of Paradise Lost," are immigrant narratives - their dreams, their traumas, their struggles - and I write them with the confidence that these stories, written from the heart, will belong, in time, to America. — Andrew Lam
There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game. — Swami Vivekananda
Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise--severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming--beautiful, but dead. — Charles Villiers Stanford
Who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd. — John Milton
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. — Mark Twain
Hope elevates, and joy
Brightens his crest. — John Milton
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