Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.

Charles Godfrey Leland

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in.

Byron Katie

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

Callan McAuliffe

I'm not really one for fancy, big words and poetry, and the scriptwriters worked very hard on 'Paradise Lost' to translate it.

Thomas Fuller

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

Benjamin Disraeli

All Paradise opens! Let me die eating ortolans to the sound of soft music!

bell hooks

The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created.

Abraham Verghese

Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift.

E. O. Wilson

This planet can be a paradise in the 22nd century.

Anne Bancroft

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A chaste generation would restore Paradise.

Anita Ekberg

I don't know if paradise or hell exist, but I'm sure hell is more groovy.

Albert Camus

Women are all we know of paradise on this earth.

Angelus Silesius

Paradise is at your own center; unless you find it there, there is no way to enter.

Andre Breton

How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise.

Andrew Wylie

The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away and the paradise which is yet to come.

Ruby Dee

Paradise is to be the ultimate instrument, fulfilling God's desperate intent that we love each other.

Steven Erikson

Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.

Sri Chinmoy

Paradise is not a place; it's a state of consciousness.

Thomas Gray

Thought would destroy their paradise.

Victor Hugo

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

Shakira

If I could, I'd live in the nude, like Eve in paradise.

Randy Newman

I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

John Milton

Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell.

Nikolai Berdyaev

Creative experience foreshadows a new Heaven and a new Earth.

Madonna Ciccone

You gave me back the paradise That I thought I lost for good You helped me find the reasons why It took me by surprise that you understood You knew all along What I never wanted to say Until I learned to love myself I was never ever lovin' anybody else.

Esha Gupta

Delhi is definitely a foodie's paradise.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

Henning Mankell

I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.

George Bernard Shaw

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

George Bernard Shaw

Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

Franz Kafka

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

Franz Kafka

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