Paradise Quotes
794 Paradise quotes by 560 unique authors
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There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For…
— J. D. Sedding
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Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening. It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly satisfying…
— Geoff Hamilton
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Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.
— Henry Mitchell
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What is paradise, but, a garden, an orchard of trees and herbs, full of pleasure and nothing there but delights.
— William Lawson
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The mind leaps, and leaps perhaps with a sort of elation, through the immensities of space, but the spirit, frightened and cold, longs to have…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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In the past our glorious visions of the future - heaven, paradise, nirvana - were thought to happen after death. The newer thought is that…
— Barbara Marx Hubbard
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The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.
— John Keats
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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…
— William Ralph Inge
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An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
— Victor Hugo
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An angel of Paradise, no less, is always beside me, wrapped in everlasting ecstasy on his Lord. So I am ever under the gaze of…
— Pope John XXIII
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There are several states where you can get married. But I think I can say without fear of contradiction, 'Paradise awaits.' We'll be happy to…
— Neil Abercrombie
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Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers and children.
— Dante Alighieri
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In our first paradise in Eden there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly…
— Richard Baxter
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Thought would destroy their paradise.
— Thomas Gray
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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…
— Henry Van Dyke
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The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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As memory may be a paradise from which we cannot be driven, it may also be a hell from which we cannot escape.
— John Lancaster Spalding
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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.
— Jean Paul
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Paradise is surrounded by what we dislike; the fires of hell are surrounded by what we desire.
— Rumi
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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…
— Peter Julian Eymard
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The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the…
— Albert Einstein
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The world is a mirror of infinite beauty, yet no man sees it. It is a Temple of Majesty, yet no man regards it. It…
— Thomas Traherne
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Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard sweetly: Eternal life…
— Thomas Adams
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People, when they are frustrated with worldly desires, start changing the object: they start making otherworldly objects of desire - heaven, paradise, and all the…
— Rajneesh
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