Top 27 Lost Eden Quotes
#1. He was unshakably determined to demand of anyone or anything that wanted to force him to live, whoever and whatever they might be - his grandfather, fate, hell - the restitution of his lost Eden.
He did not hide the obstacles from himself.
Victor Hugo
#2. Human excellence, parted from God, is like a fable flower, which, according to Rabbis, Eve plucked when passing out of paradise
severed from its native root, it is only the touching memorial of a lost Eden; sad, while charming
beautiful, but dead.
Charles Villiers Stanford
#3. No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden.
Elizabeth Bowen
#4. Funny thing about love, ain't it? Sometimes it saves you and sometimes, like right then, even love isn't enough.
Eden Butler
#5. You've always said I should have an inquiring mind," she said.
"I have. But not an interrupting one.
John Flanagan
#6. Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look at the state of the world today!
Robert South
#7. Beyond this, to speak to the river and ask it why it runs, or to the sunshine and inquire of its cheer, or to command the raging storm be silent, this is a delight that saints and angels know which man, exiled from Eden, has lost. We are dumb and deaf in a world given to our dominion.
John C. Wright
#8. Having mourned your sin, for outward Eden lost, find paradise within.
John Dryden
#9. God created man for fellowship ... The fall of man ruined that and Paradise that is, the garden of Eden was lost, but on the new earth paradise will be regained and God will again fellowship with mankind in a unique sense.
Paul P. Enns
#10. The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they are gardeners after the Fall, lost and exposed to both the elements and the lens.
Justine Kurland
#11. Feng shui isn't open to interpretation.
Rob Lowe
#12. A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.
W. Somerset Maugham
#13. It's like irresistible poison: I'm mesmerized by the way it's making me feel though it has the potential to crush my soul and I drink it down anyway.
J.A. Redmerski
#14. I know what it's like to miss someone. To feel like you're just ... wandering around, lost.
Julie Kagawa
#15. To require God to prove that He is able and willing to fulfill His promises would be proof positive that one does not trust Him.
Charles R. Swindoll
#16. The quality of a restaurant's food is inversely proportioned to the amount of fun its staff seems to be having.
Dov Davidoff
#17. I am Tina Yothers and I'll never be anyone different.
Tina Yothers
#18. I haven't changed, Willie," Robert said to the wall. "No, but you ain't the same neither," she replied.
Yaa Gyasi
#19. Why have we had to invent Eden, to live submerged in the nostalgia of a lost paradise, to make up utopias, propose a future for ourselves?
Julio Cortazar
#20. The friend is a human Eden
But Eden is so easily lost
When you choose, choose wisely
Before you share, count the cost
Genieve Dawkins
#21. In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages. And it is just this transition from tongue to hand that has permitted humans to regain the ability-lost, according to Josephus, since Eden-to communicate with the animals.
Carl Sagan
#23. Those Lost Of Eden, the Heavens await your arrival.
Casper Parks
#24. Silent rushes the swift Lord
Through ruined systems still restored,
Broadsowing, bleak and void to bless,
Plants with worlds the wilderness;
Waters with tears of ancient sorrow
Apples of Eden ripe to-morrow.
House and tenant go to ground,
Lost in God, in Godhead found.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. My sense of teasing is completely lost on you.", Patrick said, hoisting himself back up. "It's a shame too. Most people tell me my sense of humor is my best quality, only outdone by my otherworldly good looks.
Nicole Williams
#26. Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.
Selena Kitt
#27. Without love, we are pointless. With it, we are infinite.
Eden Butler
