PARADISE QUOTES III
quotations about paradise
Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. (Paradisical flaws, if you like.) If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels.
HENRY MILLER
Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch
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
letter to Mr. B., April 10, 1853
The entryway of paradise is open. Jesus is the way to paradise.
JOHN THOMAS WYLIE
A Commentary on the Book of Revelation
Until the eighteenth century, people believed that biblical paradise, the Garden of Eden, was a real place. It appeared on maps--located, ironically, at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, in what is now modern-day Iraq.
ERIC WEINER
The Geography of Bliss
In looking for the keys of paradise, a pope may stoop a little; having found them he should rise again.
POPE SIXTUS V
attributed, Day's Collacon
Remembrance is the only paradise out of which we cannot be driven away; indeed, our first parents were not to be deprived of it.
JOHANN PAUL FRIEDRICH RICHTER
attributed, Day's Collacon
You deal with mythological stuff for a few years, you learn that paradises are usually places where you get killed.
RICK RIORDAN
The Battle of the Labyrinth
When she was just a girl she expected the world
But it flew away from her reach
So she ran away in her sleep and dreamed of
Para-para-paradise, para-para-paradise, para-para-paradise
Every time she closed her eyes
COLDPLAY
"Paradise"
This earth will be a paradise when men can, upon all these questions differ, and yet grasp each other's hands as friends.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Some Mistakes of Moses
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 Zürau Aphorisms
In the nine heavens are eight Paradises;
Where is the ninth one? In the human breast.
WILLIAM R. ALGER
"The Ninth Paradise", Poetry of the Orient
Seek paradise.
ZOROASTER
attributed, Day's Collacon