Quote by Angel Payne

“This Side of Paradise”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Here I am now. And it is hell. Paradise? Yes, I still am here, but who? only myself, with my small waist, my small…

— Hélène Cixous

“I am trying to describe these things not to relive them in my present boundless misery, but to sort out the portion of hell…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“He was in paradise”

— Jennifer Mugrage

“I've finished my war book now. The next one I write is going to be fun. This one is a failure, and had to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Paradise Lost is a poem. The old, blind bastard’s trying to sing to you. Listen, as the Isley Brothers say, to the music. You…

— John Edgar Wideman

“I ask no paradise on high, With cares on earth oppressed, The only heaven for which I sigh, Is rest, eternal rest.”

— Solomon Northup

“Yankel's lipstick autobiography came flaking off his bedroom ceiling, falling gently like blood-stained snow to his bed and floor. You are Yankel. You love…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“We enter into paradise when, in contemplation, we enter into awareness of the Overself.”

— Paul Brunton

“It was an evening of torment, and I remember only one other thing about it. At some point after everyone was asleep, I wandered…

— Arthur Golden

“I discovered that those who want their property to be respected, have an interest in preaching the existence of paradise and hell, and in…

— Emma Goldman

“If this cursed and fallen world holds such beauty as what I see, Imagine the beauty of paradise that's gladly waiting for me.”

— Joyce Rachelle