Paradise is full of idiots who believe it exists
Sinatra’s idea of paradise is a place where there are plenty of women and no newspapermen. He doesn’t know it, but he’d be better off if it were the other way around.
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
There is no paradise, no place of true completion that does not include within its walls the unknown.
It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls.
To love and live beloved is the soul's paradise.
The path to paradise begins in hell.
Grant me paradise in this world; I'm not so sure I'll reach it in the next.
Valhalla on the right. Paradise regained on the left. Stuck between a Godiva truffle and a chocolate eclair. Between a rock and a very hard place. Two very hard places from the looks of it.
The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes. . . The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.
I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds; hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.
So after Another You I ran off to my very own piece of paradise, my home in Hana.
If I am happy inside, then I live in paradise no matter where my residence is.
Love is a taste of paradise.
Travel is seeking the lost paradise. It is the supreme illusion of love.
My wife obviously would like to have her husband right next to her. I keep telling her inshaAllah we will be together in paradise.
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
What son would not bring his mother back to life and would not bring her into paradise after her death if he could?