Quote by Vladimir Nabokov

I still dwelled deep in my elected paradise--a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames--but still a paradise.

— Vladimir Nabokov

“There are too many tears in my eyes! The fires of Hell are no more than sparks of fire as compared to the flames…

— Omar Khayyám

“This is a paradise of rising to the occasion that points out by contrast how the rest of the time most of us fall…

— Rebecca Solnit

“He had forgotten that his paradise was surrounded by hell itself.”

— Félix J. Palma

“True paradises are paradises lost”

— Ella Frank

“The only true paradise is a paradise lost”

— Marcel Proust

“We dream much of paradise, or rather of a number of successive paradises, but each of them is, long before we die, a paradise…

— Marcel Proust

“Make your own paradise, live on it with your pride and comfort.”

— Selva Subashree S

“The only true paradise is paradise lost”

— Marcel Proust

“I will survive: if the hell rejects me, there is always the paradise.”

— Lara Biyuts

“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

“Paradise was not far away when I died”

— Seamus Deane