Paradise is often portrayed as a perfect place of happiness and peace. Many quotes about paradise emphasize its beauty and tranquility. These quotes describe paradise as a haven, a sanctuary where everything is harmonious and serene. They evoke images of lush green landscapes, clear blue skies, and gentle breezes that soothe the soul. Such quotes often highlight the idea that paradise is a state of mind, a place where worries and troubles fade away, leaving only joy and contentment. They inspire us to seek inner peace and create our own paradise amidst the chaos of the world.
Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children. — Dante Alighieri
It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. — Victor Hugo
Who are we to wish for Paradise? It will be enough if Allah spares us his wrath. — Abu Hanifa
...the avocado is a food without rival among the fruits, the veritable fruit of paradise — David Fairchild
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. — Karl Popper
Through the sunset of hope,
Like the shapes of a dream,
What paradise islands of glory gleam! — Percy Bysshe Shelley
He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise. — Abu Bakr
Key West for me was a tropical island paradise. — Gloria Swanson
Move to California. Malibu is paradise. — David Geffen
Paradise Image Quotes
Paradise is not a place, its a state of mind.
To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades. — Alexander Pope
I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.
Hell's Paradise Quotes
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n. — John Milton
I necessarily fear change except that it's so seldom for the better. It's just that I can live with any number of things going straight to hell as long as these streams continue to hold up. If this amounts to living in a fool's paradise, don't waste your time trying to explain that to the fool. — John Gierach
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell! — Thomas Fuller
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Say what you want about it, Hell is story-friendly... The mechanisms of hell are nicely attuned to the mechanisms of narrative. Not so the pleasures of Paradise. Paradise is not a story. It's about what happens when the stories are over. — Charles Baxter
Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing. — Thomas Howard
Hell is wherever Love is not, and Heaven
Is Love's location. No dogmatic creed,
No austere faith based on ignoble fear
Can lead thee into realms of joy and peace.
Unless the humblest creatures on the earth
Are bettered by thy loving sympathy
Think not to find a Paradise beyond. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell. — Saint Augustine
The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell. — Victor Hugo
Shall we keep men in a fool's paradise? Shall we lull them into soft slumbers from which they will awake in hell? Are we to become helpers of their damnation by our smooth speeches? In the name of God, we will not! — Charles Spurgeon
Nature Paradise Quotes
The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see. — Edward Abbey
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
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
Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature. — Friedensreich Hundertwasser
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. — Joni Mitchell
Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost. — John Milton
The Expulsion from Paradise is eternal in its principal aspect: this makes it irrevocable, and our living in this world inevitable, but the eternal nature of the process has the effect that not only could we remain forever in Paradise, but that we are currently there, whether we know it or not. — Franz Kafka
The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death. — William Shakespeare
Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature. — Edward Abbey
I make no apology for writing in nature's age-old and unaging language, of whose images we build our paradises, Broceliande and Brindavan, the Forest of Arden, Xanadu, Shelley's Skies, or even Wordsworth's Grasemere, which can be found on no map. — Kathleen Raine
A man searching for paradise lost can seem a fool to those who never sought the other world. — Jim Morrison
The claim of alternative practitioners to not treat disease labels but the whole patient...allows alternative practitioners to live in a fool's paradise of quackery where they believe themselves to be protected from any challenges and demands for evidence. — Edzard Ernst
A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown. — John Milton
Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth. — Sheri S. Tepper
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts. — Francis Bacon
The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other; and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable. — William Ralph Inge
A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise? — Mehmet Murat Ildan
Paradise Lost Quotes
I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost. — Henning Mankell
Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers. — John Milton
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
Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love. — Anais Nin
Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. — John Milton
..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down. — Harlan Coben
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
Paradise On Earth Quotes
Our culture is so fixated on dying and going to heaven when the whole Scripture is about heaven coming to earth. — N. T. Wright
Contentment is the greatest door that one enters to Allah, it is the source of tranquility for the worshiper and paradise on earth. Whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise in the Hereafter. — Ibn Taymiyyah
The greening of the desert means sowing seeds in people's hearts and creating a green paradise of peace on earth. — Masanobu Fukuoka
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell. — Sayings
Have a great love for Jesus in his divine Sacrament of Love; that is the divine oasis of the desert. It is the heavenly manna of the traveller. It is the Holy Ark. It is the life and Paradise of love on earth. — Peter Julian Eymard
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England. — William Shakespeare
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. — John Milton
To live in a peaceful home is to experience paradise on earth — Shri Radhe Maa
We could either develop paradise on Earth or oblivion; wipe ourselves out, only the future will tell. It's what you do to make the future. — Jacque Fresco
Paradise Lost Book 9 Quotes
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
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
Who aspires must down as low
As high he soar'd. — 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
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
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
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
Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings. — 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
Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight. — John Milton
A grateful mind/ By owing owes not, but still pays, at once/ Indebted and discharg'd. — 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
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
Farewell happy fields, Where joy forever dwells: Hail, horrors, hail. — John Milton
Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell. — John Milton
Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing. — John Milton
Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation. — John Milton
Among unequals what society Can sort, what harmony, or true delight? — John Milton
Living In Paradise Quotes
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune. — Daniel Boone
It is possible for us to live in the very sense of the Lord's presence, under even the most difficult circumstances. If you and I are going to enjoy the peace of paradise during this life we must become accustomed to a familiar, humble, and very affectionate conversation with the Lord Jesus. — Brother Lawrence
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
When our first parents were driven out of Paradise, Adam is believed to have remarked to Eve, "My dear, we live in an age of transition." — William Ralph Inge
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves? — Julio Cortazar
You can't live in paradise—but you are living right here. Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really. — Brad Warner
Two Paradises t'were in one, to live in Paradise alone. — Andrew Marvell
In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue. — Robert Kagan
If I am happy inside, then I live in paradise no matter where my residence is. — Mac Anderson
On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France. — John Dyer
Lost In Paradise Quotes
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
And that must end us, that must be our cure: To be no more. Sad cure! For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish, rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night Devoid of sense and motion? — John Milton
And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon. — John Milton
The strongest and the fiercest spirit That fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. — John Milton
Me miserable! Which way shall I fly
Infinite wrath and infinite despair?
Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep,
Still threat'ning to devour me, opens wide,
To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven. — John Milton
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower. — John Milton
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 — John Milton
United thoughts and counsels, equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise. — John Milton
Go in thy native innocence, rely On what thou hast of virtue, summon all, For God towards thee hath done his part, do thine. — Robert Browning
Cheese for dessert is rather like Paradise Lost in that everyone thinks he ought to like it, but still you don't notice too many people actually curling up with it. — Peg Bracken
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise. The first step was a good thought, the second, a good word; and the third, a good deed. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr. — Ibn Taymiyyah
The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell. — Al-Ghazali
Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise. — Zoroaster
A ‘liberal paradise’ would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive health care, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities and only law enforcement personnel have guns. And, believe it or not, such a liberal utopia does indeed exist. ... It’s called prison. — Joe Arpaio
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
The terrible, tragic fallacy of the last hundred years has been to think that all man's troubles are due to his environment, and that to change the man you have nothing to do but change his environment. That is a tragic fallacy. It overlooks the fact that it was in Paradise that man fell. — Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Whatever happens to you, don't fall in despair. Even if all the doors are closed, a secret path will be there for you that no one knows. You can't see it yet but so many paradises are at the end of this path...Be grateful! It is easy to thank after obtaining what you want, thank before having what you want. — Rumi
By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise. — Paramahansa Yogananda
By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut, but the door of repentance is never closed. Come seize the opportunity: the door is open; carry your baggage there at once. — Rumi
„Everyone wants to believe that there’s something else – something great – waiting for them on the other side. Paradise. Valhalla. Heaven. Their next – hopefully less horrible – life. — Meg Cabot
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
In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls. — Omar Khayyam
You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another. — Muhammad
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
In the Garden of Eden Eve showed more courage than Adam.. when the serpent offered the forbidden fruit. She knew that there was something better than paradise. — Cesare Borgia
When people come to Jamaica, we don't want them to think about the problems of Jamaica. So let them come be in their paradise. — Ziggy Marley
Gold is the most precious of all commodities; gold constitutes treasure, and he who possesses it has all he needs in the world, as also the means of rescuing souls from purgatory, and restoring them to the enjoyment of paradise. — Christopher Columbus
I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class. — Elizabeth Gurley Flynn
But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and if we are wise enough to know that there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know, we can reenter paradise. — Harold S. Kushner
Do not be alone even when you are in paradise. — Albanian Proverbs
Valhalla on the right. Paradise regained on the left. Stuck between a Godiva truffle and a chocolate eclair. Between a rock and a very hard place. Two very hard places from the looks of it. — Karen Marie Moning
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