“In childhood, you long to grow up fast because older people are more powerful, young men more powerful. A child just longs… — Osho Copy Share Image
“The tragedy of my species xxx is that it does not live in its own time. Homo sapiens is locked on history's… — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
“If you have seen in silent prayer How the soul of the earth fashions crystals, If you have seen the flame in… — Manfred Kyber Copy Share Image
“one thing that I realized early on in thinking about this book, when I found, to my consternation, that I was writing… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The Revolutionary's Utopia, which in appearance represents a complete break with the past, is always modeled on some image of the Lost… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“My memories, with images by Botticelli and harmonies by Mozart, of returning from a far away place, of the time when my… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
In the history of humanity there are no civilizations or cultures which fail to manifest, in one or a thousand ways, this… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Almost all serious stories in the world are stories of failure with a death in it. But there is more lost paradise… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
“A step lower and strangeness creeps in: perceiving that the world is "dense", sensing to what a degree a stone is foreign… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The curse of life The story of Man’s10 abrupt expulsion from Eden – be it fiction, metaphor or literal fact – has… — Lynn Picknett Copy Share Image
“4. "Outward longings will drive you from the eden within; they offer false pleasures that only impersonate the souls happiness, The lost… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“...if true love breaks as easily as a delusion, on what can we rely? What will people pin their hopes on?" [Nilima]… — Saratchandra Chattopadhyay Copy Share Image
Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
For man, the vanity of vanities represents first of all solidarity with his own universe, and this vanity is mans Salvation, the… — Sorin Cerin Copy Share Image
“Religious discourse was not intended to be understood literally because it was only possible to speak about a reality that transcended language… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Kessler depicts his developing intimacy with a handful of dairy goats and offers an enviable glimpse of the pastoral good life. Yet… — Heather Paxson Copy Share Image
Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“But what is [the] quality of originality? It is very hard to define or specify. Indeed, to define originality would in itself… — David Bohm Copy Share Image
Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature's loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But someone may ask, is there any real reason why these sages, whether Buddhist or Stoic, should not recapture the soul of… — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
“I have no idea whether parents can be of help, and I do not blame mine. It was my own affair to… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
