Dark Paradise Quotes

#1. Everytime I close my eyes it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, I'm scared that you won't be waiting on the other side.

Lana Del Rey

#2. There's nowhere for us to go back to. We can go forward. We can find our way out.

Christina Henry

#3. When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain.

Gautama Buddha

#4. What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support,
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men. 1
Paradise Lost. Book i. Line 22.

John Milton

#5. We become like what we focus upon. Fix your eyes upon Christ and be conformed into His image.

Steven J. Lawson

#6. Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.

Clive Barker

#7. I am an intelligent river which has reflected successively all the banks before which it has flowed by meditating only on the images offered by those changing shores.

Victor Hugo

#8. Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I can see paradise by the dashboard light.

Meat Loaf

#9. I don't despise 'Don Quixote,' but it is a book I don't ... get. I'll have to come back it. Maybe there'll be a gateway story that opens it up for me; that happened for me with 'Paradise Lost' and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.

Helen Oyeyemi

#10. Ashes have no fear to burn in hell
In your heart's paradise angels dwell
Rib cage fastens all sins of the wrong
Your bones will sing you mortality's song

Munia Khan

#11. The point is not to avoid the war, it is to win it.

Terry Pratchett

#12. If worries were warts, I'd be a toad!

Emily Nelson

#13. Now you comprehend your first and final lover / in the dark receding planets of his eyes, / and this is the hour when you know moreover / that the god you have loved always / will descend and lie with you in paradise.

Gwendolyn MacEwen

#14. Did I actually reach out my arms
toward it, toward paradise falling, like
the fading of the dearest, wildest hope-
the dark heart of the story that is all
the reason for its telling?

Mary Oliver

#15. Respect and love your readers. Write for the reader.

Janet Evanovich

#16. When fears are screaming in your ears, try to hear the whispers of your faith and run into that dark path. That is how you reach the paradise.

Akshay Vasu

#17. every shape and mode of matter lends Its force to the omnipotence of mind, Which from its dark mine drags the gem of truth To decorate its paradise of peace.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#18. Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.

Janet Malcolm

#19. As you advance in life, different passions can take the front seat, so for me, business is where my primary focus is right now.

Marie Forleo

#20. True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

Dwight L. Moody

#21. I like to be judged by my family and friends because they know me.

Leighton Meester