Quotes about paradise

"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better."

Anderson, Laurie Halse on paradise   

"It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up. And they did."

Arbus, Diane on paradise   

"Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other."

Baudrillard, Jean on paradise   

"A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!"

Fuller, Thomas on paradise   

"The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise."

Gide, Andre on paradise   

"A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death."

Hemingway, Ernest on paradise   

"From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers."

Lucretius on paradise   

"Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on paradise
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"It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. It is obviously much easier to find inhabitants for an inferno or even a purgatorio."

Pound, Ezra on paradise   

"We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords."

Rivera, J. A. Primo De on paradise   

"I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell."

Rostand, Jean on paradise
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"It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste."

Waugh, Evelyn on paradise   

"We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise."

Weil, Simone on paradise