Paradise is exactly like where you are right now… only much, much better. – Laurie Halse Anderson
It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up. And they did. – Diane Arbus
Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other. – Jean Baudrillard
The Utopia the bible seems to want would have people hate evil when it is time to hate and suggests that people who turn away from the world to follow His word would in turn be hated and those people who hate them are to be humiliated in the end. – James Dye
A fools paradise is a wise mans hell! – Thomas Fuller
The abominable effort to take ones sins with one to paradise. – Andre Gide
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. – Ernest Hemingway
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. – Lucretius
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell. – Friedrich Nietzsche
We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, angels with swords. – J. A. Primo De Rivera
I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell. – Jean Rostand
We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling
It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste. – Evelyn Waugh
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise. – Simone Weil
