Paradise Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old paradise quotes, paradise sayings, and paradise proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering; or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out. Jay Griffiths
Your library is your paradise. Desiderius Erasmus
There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise. Alain Badiou
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better. Laurie Anderson
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. Voltaire
The only paradise is paradise lost. Marcel Proust
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. Karl Popper
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell! Thomas Fuller
Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary. Said Nursi
Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out. Jean Paul
Children are the keys of paradise. Eric Hoffer
Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies. George Santayana
God comes first. Paradise is not cheap. Hakeem Olajuwon
Hell is where everyone is doing his own thing. Paradise is where everyone is doing God's thing. Thomas Howard
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. Simone Weil
He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him. Abu Bakr
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise. Novalis
A worker's paradise is a consumer's hell. Esther Dyson
Paradise is too perfect for humanity. Dario Argento
The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God. Alphonsus Liguori
The path to paradise begins in hell. Dante Alighieri
Even paradise could become a prison if one had enough time to take notice of the walls. Morgan Rhodes
God hides the fires of hell within paradise. Paulo Coelho
Certainly paradise, whatever, wherever it be, contains flaws. If it did not, it would be incapable of drawing the hearts of men or angels. Henry Miller
Whoever threads a path seeking knowledge, Allah will make easy for him the path to paradise. Anonymous
Paradise is open to all kind hearts. Pierre Jean de Beranger
He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness. Abu Bakr
Privacy is paradise. Holly Hunter