Paradise Quotes - Page 35

• Conformity, humility, acceptance with these coins we are to pay our fares to paradise.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Humility, Acceptance, Atheism

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• Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight

  Lana Del Rey

  Dream, Eye, Dark

  Song: Dark Paradise, 2012

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• If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

  Antonio Gramsci

  Fathers Day, Son, Simple

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• Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Heaven, Soul

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• Great art... is the result of the labours of thousands of faithful craftsmen who know that they are doomed to remain for ever outside the gates of the Paradise of Perfection, but who nevertheless will give the very best there is in them because the work they do means more to them than anything else in this world.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Art, Mean, Greatness

  Hendrik Willem Van Loon, Grace Castagnetta (1937). “The Arts”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• Paradise is to love many things with a passion.

  Pablo Picasso

  Passion

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• I am against the idea of the end, that everything culminates in paradise or judgment.

  Anselm Kiefer

  Ideas, Judgment, Ends

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• I fell in love with my country - its rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, cities and people. No one can take my love of country away from me! I felt then, as I do now, it's a rich, fertile, beautiful land, capable of satisfying all the needs of its people. It could be a paradise on earth if it belonged to the people, not to a small owning class.

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

  Beautiful, Country, Falling In Love

  Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (1973). “The Rebel Girl: an autobiography, my first life (1906-1926).”

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• My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'.

  Gerhard Richter

  Beautiful, Deception, Suggestions

  Robert Storr, Gerhard Richter, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2002). “Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting”, p.67, The Museum of Modern Art

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• The higher worlds are around us. These worlds are not only heavenly worlds, not only worlds of happiness, though paradise and happiness are in them, but they are also worlds that could be terrible for the people, by dangerous facts and creatures.

  Rudolf Steiner

  People, Facts, World

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• I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.

  Thierry Henry

  Ideas, Obsessed, Mark

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• Nowhere in the world do supporters love their clubs more than in England. England is paradise to play in.

  Arjen Robben

  Play, England, World

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• It's a paradise that we are going to go into, because to be in the presence of God itself will be a paradise.

  Billy Graham

  God, Presence Of God

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• Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas wreath on it, hoping he would look down from the Paradise of Ten Billion Trees and Unrationable Dog Biscuits and pity us.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Dog, Two, Feet

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• 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

  Belief, Has Beens, Indestructible

  Franz Kafka, Malcolm Pasley (1973). “Shorter works [of] Franz Kafka”, Harvill Secker

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• One of the things I love about our source text as Christians, the Bible is that it teaches us not to avoid conflict. And it teaches us that before the fall of man, in Paradise, there was conflict. God wants conflict to be a part of your life.

  Donald Miller

  Christian, Fall, Men

  "Q&A with Author Donald Miller". RELEVANT Magazine Interview, relevantmagazine.com. November 20, 2009.

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• I found a piece of paradise to call my own, and life is worth living again, for to love you, to me, is to live.

  Larry Graham

  Romantic, Love You, Pieces

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• The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.

  Emily Dickinson

  Hands, Wide

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.233, Harvard University Press

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• To lose sensibility, to see what one sees,
  As if sight had not its own miraculous thrift,
  To hear only what one hears, one meaning alone,
  As if the paradise of meaning ceased
  To be paradise, it is this to be destitute.

  Wallace Stevens

  Philosophy, Sight, Medicine

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.331, Vintage

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• Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Moments, Conscious

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Gaze not on beauty too much, lest it blast thee; nor too long, lest it blind thee; nor too near, lest it burn thee. If thou like it, it deceives thee; if thou love it, it disturbs thee; if thou hunt after it, it destroys thee. If virtue accompany it, it is the heart's paradise; if vice associate it, it is the soul's purgatory. It is the wise man's bonfire, and the fool's furnace.

  Francis Quarles

  Beauty, Wise, Heart

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.57

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• Only add
  Deeds to thy knowledge answerable, add faith,
  Add virtue, patience, temperance, add love,
  By name to come call'd charity, the soul
  Of all the rest; then wilt thou not be loath
  To leave this Paradise, but shall possess
  A Paradise within thee, happier far.

  John Milton

  Names, Soul, Add

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 12, l. 581

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• The advice nearest to my heart and deepest in my convictions is that the union of the states be cherished and perpetuated. Let the open enemy to it be regarded as a Pandora with her box opened, and the disguised one as the serpent creeping with his deadly wiles into paradise.

  James Madison

  Heart, Advice, Enemy

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

  Arthur Lynch

  People, Optimism, Cheerful

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• If anyone without the right faith receives Baptism outside the Church, he does not receive it unto salvation ... From the comparison of the Church to Paradise, we learn that men can receive her Baptism even outside her fold, but that out there no one can receive or keep the salvation of the blessed.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Blessed, Men, Baptism

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