Earthly Paradise Quotes

#1. Rooted in the mythology of all primitive races is the belief in a land of peace and happiness, a sort of earthly paradise, once possessed by man, but now lost, and only to be attained again by the virtuous.

H. A. Guerber

#2. The earthly paradise had been discredited at exactly the moment when it became realisable.

George Orwell

#3. When angels speak of love they tell us it is only by loving that we enter an earthly paradise. They tell us paradise is our home and love our true destiny.

Bell Hooks

#4. The ultimate goal of the architect ... is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture ... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

Alvar Aalto

#5. Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to earthly paradise.

Margaret Sanger

#6. The peak of empathogens can be characterised as earthly paradise in comparison to the heavenly paradise of LSD and hallucinogens of that category.

Claudio Naranjo

#7. So with this Earthly Paradise it is, If ye will read aright, and pardon me, Who strive to build a shadowy isle of bliss Midmost the beating of the steely sea ...

William Morris

#8. The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.

Jean Danielou

#9. The dead girl had her glimpse of earthly paradise: littered with designer goods, and celebrities to sneer at, and handsome drivers to joke with, and the yearning for it had brought her to this: seven mourners, and a minister who did not know her name.

Robert Galbraith

#10. A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise.

Richard Aldington

#11. But by the fourth decade of the twentieth century all the main currents of political thought were authoritarian. The earthly paradise had been discredited at exactly the moment when it became realizable.

George Orwell

#12. We were walking away from the car together when Margo reached down for my hand,laced her fingers in mine,and squeezed.I squeezed back and then glanced at her.She nodded her head solemnly,and I nodded back,and then she let go of my hand.

John Green

#13. But for my sighs, I should be drowned by my tears; and but for my tears, I should be burned by my sighs.

Ibn Al-Farid

#14. During my administration, our desire has been to strengthen the civilian spirit of our people. Thus, we have eliminated military ranks and salutes from our civil guard.

Oscar Arias

#15. Why didn't you sleep with the headrest?"
I shrugged. "It was uncomfortable." I looked at Sadie for support. "You didn't use it, did you?"
Sadie rolled her eyes. "Well, of course I did. It was obviously there for a reason.

Rick Riordan

#16. A comely female inhabiting the Mohammedan Paradise to make things cheery for the good Mussulman, whose belief in her existence marks a noble discontent with his earthly spouse, whom he denies a soul.

Ambrose Bierce

#17. It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.

Carl Levin

#18. Spices were certainly regarded as antidotes to earthly squalor in another, more mystical sense. They were thought to be splinters of paradise that had found their way into the ordinary world.

Tom Standage

#19. Men have not got tired of Christianity; they have never found enough Christianity to get tired of. Men have never wearied of political justice; they have wearied of waiting for it.

G.K. Chesterton

#20. Weezer's 'El Scorcho.' I'm in a '90s cover band called 'Straight 2 Video' with members of the crew from 'The Vampire Diaries,' and we played this song at our wrap party. I grin from ear to ear every time I scream this song in my car.

Candice Accola

#21. People with menial jobs conjure up what Nietzsche calls a background world, forcing themselves to believe in an earthly or heavenly paradise. Their mental Eden is as seductive as their job is repugnant.

Amelie Nothomb

#22. Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.

Douglas Brinkley

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

Andre Breton

#24. The Victim was a chronic fuck-up. People Like her always seemed to hang out with The Poisonous Cunt. In turn, she kept their self-esteem low and made sure that they stayed in psychic immiseration. She was a curator of dead souls.

Irvine Welsh

#25. Here I am: a Russian-speaking Jew living in Canada, and you, an Indian ex-patriot living in San Francisco. All of a sudden we commune in this moment about a much older Russian political dissident.That's the human part of being human: feeling those moments.

David Bezmozgis

#26. It's not a bad idea to occasionally spend a little time thinking about things you take for granted. Plain everyday things.

Evan Davis

#27. The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, Life's paradise, great princess, the soul's quiet, Sinews of concord, earthly immortality, Eternity of pleasures.

John Ford

#28. My writing is how I maintain.

Mark Salzman

#29. Your religions are boring you, your philosophies are boring you, your scriptures are boring you. Thousands of years of the past are the cause of your boredom. You cannot dance - you are chained to the past, you are imprisoned in the past.

Rajneesh

#30. It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

Oliver Goldsmith

#31. All the modern verse plays, they're terrible; they're mostly about the poetry. It's more important that the play is first.

Denis Johnson