Inspirational Quote by Franz Kafka

Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return.

— Franz Kafka

“Paradise is not a place that awaits our arrival but a present we arrive at.”

— Gregory Boyle

“For dismissed by You from Paradise, and having taken my journey into a far country, I cannot by myself return, unless Thou meetest the…

— Augustine of Hippo

“The waiting gave them a purpose in life for a little while and, almost, they felt necessary again.”

— Betty Smith

“Yet, ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their Paradise.…

— Thomas Gray

“Nobody is fully ready for paradise. That is why 'the kingdom come' will be like thief in the night.”

— Toba Beta

“Of Paradise I cannot speak properly, for I have not been there; and that I regret.”

— Anonymous

“Maybe because he’d been exiled from paradise by a beast of his own making. Because he’d decided Freedom was home, and he couldn’t come…

— Margaret Killjoy

“The dwellers in Paradise know that the first thing they must give up is their heart.”

— Farid ud-Din Attar

“For me, dear reader, that place was purgatory incarnate; neither good nor bad, but a gateway to great rewards or even greater punishments.”

— Joss Sheldon

“The irony of their impatience is that only by learning to wait, and by a willingness to accept the bad with the good, do…

— Joshua Harris

“Paradise was not far away when I died”

— Seamus Deane