Top 115 Paradise Quotes

When you look at the original ‘Paradise Lost’ film, you see three kids who can’t defend themselves, being persecuted in a medieval way – witchcraft, satanic worship. It was kind of primitive.

Working on ‘Death In Paradise’ is very challenging, but it enables me to go further in my acting.

Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.

The United States is paradise compared to China, Russia, Ecuador and Cuba, with regard to the press. And with regard to secrecy and transparency.

I never thought I’d go back on ‘Paradise’ or ‘The Bachelorette’ or ‘The Bachelor,’ but I think I have learned in life that it is best to sit back and let things come your way, and take each situation on its own.

If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

We save paradise by an intense education program where you get people that you can trust to talk sanely about the environment and hope that the message will get through.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.

When you see a photograph of a football crowd at a Saturday afternoon game in August 1963, you’ve got 40,000 men in trilbies. That’s paradise, man.

The Travel Channel had success with their ‘Food Paradise’ series, ’10 Best Places to Pig Out’ and those types of specials, so they knew there was a market for comfort food and wanted to develop a show around it.

But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

Stylistically speaking, ‘Paradise’ is a Jekyll & Hyde song.

Rwanda can be a paradise again, but it will take the love of the entire world to heal my homeland. And that’s as it should be, for what happened in Rwanda happened to us all – humanity was wounded by the genocide.

I really like ‘This Side of Paradise’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald. I think it’s a cool description of a character.

I was a good college kid, all-American and baseball-playing, living in the dorms with a million barbarians. I did not expect to be claimed by Fitzgerald hook, line, and sinker. ‘This Side of Paradise’ – that sweet, sophomoric pastiche of notes, scenes, poetry, and plays – I felt like he’d written the book just for me.

I do love one-upmanship sometimes, like when you see kids breakdancing and who can do the best tricks. It’s common, it’s in our nature as animals, like the birds of paradise who’ve got the best feathers and that sort of stuff. But it’s fun when it’s impulsive and it’s about fun.

Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.

By the skillful and sustained use of propaganda, one can make a people see even heaven as hell or an extremely wretched life as paradise.

When I read ‘Paradise Lost,’ or ‘Richard III,’ it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.

In my view, America has never had the opportunity to enter paradise. Europe enjoys the paradise it enjoys, in part because the United States provides the overall security that allows Europe to live in a system where military power is not a major issue.

If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to ‘non-believers,’ atheists would likewise seek to eliminate ‘dangerous’ believers with their ‘childish’ ways and their heads in the clouds.

There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.

The Maldives is truly a paradise on Earth.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.

‘Death In Paradise’ is my dream job – a fascinating character, great scripts, superb cast, and shooting in the Caribbean with French catering.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I’ll do the best I can.

Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.

It’s a blessing to be paid to be in paradise. The Hawaiian people are so friendly.

Paradise is too perfect for humanity.

There are the tears of rage when books get praised when they’re so obviously garbage. But then there are so many more that continue to move me: the end of ‘Paradise Lost,’ ‘The Ruined Cottage’ by Wordsworth, Prospero’s ‘Our revels now are ended’ speech near the end of ‘The Tempest.’

My song from ‘Footloose,’ ‘Almost Paradise,’ went number 1 dislodging Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’ from that spot.

There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.

I’ve fallen in love with Waikiki; the beach, the climate, the people, and the hotel – it really is a paradise.

The Whitsundays are a sailor’s paradise and because they sit at the southern limit of one of the seven natural wonders of the world, the Great Barrier Reef, they are also a diver’s dream.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Delhi is definitely a foodie’s paradise.

St. Petersburg is a wonderful city. You have wonderful parks, birds singing in the trees, manatees in the water, pelicans. So it’s like this little paradise on Earth.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

The only paradise is paradise lost.

Sweden is not a green paradise, it has one of the biggest carbon footprints.

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

Working on ‘The Paradise’ is like putting on a comfy overcoat.

There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation’s belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.

The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.

My favourite place in South Korea is Jeju Island: it’s a tropical paradise with sandy beaches, turquoise waters, and the magnificent Geomunoreum lava tube system of underground caves.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Being in New Zealand, which is incredibly beautiful – I think it’s paradise – it’s just the perfect place. Everything about it I love, and I would love to live there.

My entire schedule gets turned around for ‘The Bachelor’ and ‘Bachelor in Paradise.’

I went to the Paradise Restaurant on 49th Street and Broadway which was where they were playing, and I sat in.

We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

The heart of man is, so to speak, the paradise of God.

Listen to Your Heart’ was a blank slate. Yeah, there was this outside idea of ‘Bachelor in Paradise’ meets ‘A Star Is Born,’ but what does that mean? You have to actually define that, make it happen.

Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf holiday, and most people would dream of Scotland or Ireland. But Indonesia harbors one of the best-kept secrets in the world of travel: it is a golfer’s paradise.

Denmark’s fall and winter were really cold and long, actually, but my job often takes me to paradise, so I can’t complain.

On my return to Cornwall I discovered that I was living in a tropical paradise. For now I am content to explore my own home and our nearest neighbour France.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

You walk into BookCon, and everybody is so excited… it’s just paradise.

My father said, ‘Let’s raise our child in a paradise instead of a parking lot,’ and that’s what they did.

Every year, thousands of Californians flee that populous paradise for tax-eased small government oasis of America’s red states.

I have only one dream. It is the oldest of humanity, of man, in time. It is paradise. I would like to give paradise to everyone.

I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.