Paradise Quotes - Page 26

• We were created in order to live in Paradise, and Paradise was ordained to serve us.
  What was ordained for us has been changed; it is not said
  that this has also happened with what was ordained for Paradise.

  Franz Kafka

  Fate, Order, Religion

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• 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

  Soul, Atheism, Female

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.113, University of Georgia Press

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• Boughs have their fruit and blossom
  At all times of the year;
  Rivers are running over
  With red beer and brown beer.

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Beer, Years

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

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• I have desired to go
  Where springs not fail,
  To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
  And a few lilies blow.

  Gerard Manley Hopkins

  Spring, Blow, Lilies

  'No worst, there is none' (written 1885)

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• After a lustre of the moon, we say
  We have not the need of any paradise,
  We have not the need of any seducing hymn.

  Wallace Stevens

  Moon, Hymns, Needs

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.290, Vintage

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• The imperfect is our paradise.
  Note that, in this bitterness, delight,
  Since the imperfect is so hot in us,
  Lies in flawed words and stubborn sounds.

  Wallace Stevens

  Lying, Perfection, Sound

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.218, Vintage

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• Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

  Mason Cooley

  Garden, Snakes, Dutch

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• The Park Avenue of poodles and polished brass; it is cab country, tip-town, glassville, a window-washer's paradise.

  Gay Talese

  Country, Poodles, Parks

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• No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

  Mason Cooley

  Loss, Needs, Sentimental

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• Adam's first domestic pet after the expulsion from Paradise was the serpent.

  Franz Kafka

  Pet, Firsts, Adam

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• We were expelled from Paradise, but it was not destroyed. The expulsion from Paradise was in one sense a piece of good fortune, for if we had not been expelled, Paradise would have had to be destroyed.

  Franz Kafka

  Luck, Pieces, Expulsion

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Expulsion from Paradise is in its main aspect eternal: that is to say, although expulsion from Paradise is final, and life in theworld unavoidable, the eternity of the process (or, expressed in temporal terms, the eternal repetition of the process) nevertheless makes it possible not only that we might remain in Paradise permanently, but that we may in fact be there permanently, no matter whether we know it here or not.

  Franz Kafka

  Time, May, Might

  Franz Kafka (1954). “Wedding preparations in the country: and other posthumous prose writings. With notes by Max Brod”

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• In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.

  Franz Kafka

  Evil, Doe, Causes

  Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”

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• Currently, U.S. society has been encouraged by its political and subsidized mass-media intelligentsia to view U.S. life as a continual "morning in America" paradise, where the only social problems occur in the inner cities. Psychologists call this denial.

  Ishmael Reed

  Morning, Views, Media

  Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

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• The universalists, the idealists, the Utopians all aim too high. They give promises of an unattainable paradise, and by doing so they deceive mankind. Whatever label they wear, whether they call themselves Christians, Communists, humanitarians, whether they are merely sincere but stupid or wire-pullers and cynics, they are all makers of slaves. I myself have always kept my eye fixed on a paradise which, in the nature of things, lies well within our reach. I mean an improvement in the lot of the German people. (21st February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Lying, Stupid

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• The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Humanity, Hell, Mankind

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• However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love You, Mean, Names

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

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• Germany is now a field of cadavers, soon she will be a paradise.

  Georg Buchner

  Revolution, Germany, Cadavers

  "The Hessian Courier". Book by Georg Buchner, 1834.

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• Set in the remote and harsh high desert landscape of Idaho, Outpost is an artist live/work studio and sculpture garden for making and displaying art. An important aspect of the complex is the protected paradise garden, which is separated from the wild landscape by thick masonry walls. The materials used in the structure, including concrete block, car-decking, and plywood, require little to no maintenance, and are capable of withstanding the extreme weather that characterize the desert’s four seasons.

  Tom Kundig

  Art, Wall, Block

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• But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to rejoice in another's happiness, and if we are wise enough to know that there is enough love to go around for us all, then we can achieve a fulfillment that no other living creature will ever know, we can reenter paradise.

  Harold S. Kushner

  Wise, Strong, Brave

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• I once got a huge, expensive flower arrangement from a person I didn't like, who sent it out of pure guilt. It had a hideous bird-of-paradise in the middle, and I thought it would never fade and die. I hated it.

  Maeve Binchy

  Flower, Bird, Guilt

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• In such novels as This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald depicts the spirit of the hour which is usually about 4 a.m. His suave young men, always commuting between Princeton and The Plaza in Stutz Bearcats never sat still for long. It was too uncomfortable, with a large flask in the hip pocket.

  Richard Armour

  Art, Men, Long

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• Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

  Anne Hull

  Florida, Mermaid, Nineteen

  "The Strawberry Girls" by Anne Hull, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2008.

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• I sometimes think Adam and Eve were Russians. They didn't have a roof over their head, nothing to wear, but they had one apple between them and they thought that was Paradise.

  Ronald Reagan

  War, Thinking, Apples

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• You've heard of people living in a fool's paradise? Well, Leonora has a duplex there.

  George S. Kaufman

  Home, People, House

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