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When the storm is over and night falls and the moon is out in all its glory and all you're left with is the rhythm of the sea, of the waves, you know what God intended for the human race, you know what paradise is.
HAROLD PINTER, Party Time
- Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave
- A paradise for a sect.
JOHN KEATS, The Fall of Hyperion
A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.
EUGENE IONESCO, Present Past / Past Present
All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
TONI MORRISON, Online NewsHour interview, Mar. 9, 1998
Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.
MILAN KUNDERA, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Or were I in the wildest waste,
- Sae black and bare, sae black and bare,
- The desert were a paradise,
- If thou wert there, if thou wert there.
ROBERT BURNS, O, Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast
A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT, Table Talk
The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so.
GARRISON KEILLOR, "God Changes With the Weather," Salon.com, Dec. 29, 2009
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