Paradise Quotes

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

Christopher Columbus

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Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Anne Bancroft

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Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing.

Thomas Howard

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

Montesquieu

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I have made of Sydney, to which I sailed in 1965, a paradise beyond the powers of fancy.

Howard Jacobson

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Delhi is definitely a foodie's paradise.

Esha Gupta

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

Emil Cioran

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

Voltaire

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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.

Marguerite Young

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I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.

Helen Oyeyemi

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If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

Tariq Ramadan

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I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.

Malachy McCourt

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God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

Hakeem Olajuwon

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The myths have always condemned those who 'looked back.' Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision.

Dag Hammarskjold

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For a boy of ten, used to the coal bings and rust-coloured burns of Cowdenbeath, the fields and woodland of Kingswood, with its overgrown but stately avenue of copper-barked sequoias, felt like a local version of paradise.

John Burnside

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Adam was placed in Paradise in perfect estate, and in the company of God's angels; God walked and did talk with him. He heard the voice, and beheld the presence of God.

John Jewel

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It's been mentioned or suggested that Paradise will not be well studied, because it's about this unimportant intellectual topic, which is religion.

Toni Morrison

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

Jorge Luis Borges

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If I spoke Italian, I'd be in Italy in a minute. I love the food, I love the way people live there. I mean, it really is my idea of paradise.

Bonnie Bedelia

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Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

Anne Hull

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

Thomas Fuller

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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

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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

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

Esther Dyson

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