Earthly Delights Quotes

#1. A living man must have a living God, or his soul will perish in the midst of earthly plenty, and will thirst and die whilst the water of earthly delights is running all around him. We are made to need persons not things.

Alexander MacLaren

#2. I am a garden of earthly delights.
I am the apple you would fall for a thousand times.

Diane Lockward

#3. You're not a Christian, are you?"
"No."
"You should consider it. We may not offer too many earthly delights, but our lives after death are certainly worth having.

Bernard Cornwell

#4. All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

Francois Fenelon

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

Andre Breton

#6. The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city.

Carolina Herrera

#7. Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights.

Barbara Rosenblat

#8. An eye for an eye will only make the world bright. Sorry, Mahatma. This is the absolute and only true form of justice.

Natalya Vorobyova

#9. Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness.

Terry Riley

#10. A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

Ben Jonson

#11. Blessedness is promised to the peacemaker, not to the conqueror.

Francis Quarles

#12. Woman wants monogamy;
Man delights in novelty.
Love is woman's moon and sun;
Man has other forms of fun.
Woman lives but in her lord;
Count to ten, and man is bored.
With this the gist and sum of it,
What earthly good can come of it?

Dorothy Parker

#13. The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

John F. Kennedy

#14. Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole 'Baroque Cycle' and 'Cryptonomicon.'

Daniel Suarez