# Quotes about paradise

- Quotes: 23
- Authors: 15
- Broader topic: [Quotes about religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md)
- Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise
- JSON version (same data): https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.json

## Quotes

> She held the needle to the light. It was a wonder how something sharp came down to nothing like that. She looked through the needle's eye. So that's the Kingdom of Heaven, she thought. So that's all there was.

[Tim Winton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton.md) · [Cloudstreet](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/cloudstreet.md) · p. 53 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/tim-winton/cloudstreet/she-held-the.md)

Topics: [faith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> One time, however, we were near quarrelling. He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees humming dreamily about among the bloom, and the larks singing high up overhead, and the blue sky and bright sun shining steadily and cloudlessly. That was his most perfect idea of heaven's happiness — mine was rocking in a rustling green tree, with a west wind blowing, and bright white clouds flitting rapidly above; and not only larks, but throstles, and blackbirds, and linnets, and cuckoos pouring out music on every side, and the moors seen at a distance, broken into cool dusky dells; but close by great swells of long grass undulating in waves to the breeze; and woods and sounding water, and the whole world awake and wild with joy. He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive, and he said mine would be drunk; I said I should fall asleep in his, and he said he could not breathe in mine.

[Emily Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte.md) · [Wuthering Heights](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emily-bronte/wuthering-heights/one-time-however.md)

Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> I’m sure I’ll go to heaven. I’ve been dull enough.

[Peter S. Beagle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-s-beagle.md) · [A Fine and Private Place](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-s-beagle/a-fine-and-private-place.md) · p. 48 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/peter-s-beagle/a-fine-and-private-place/im-sure-ill.md)

Topics: [humor](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/humor.md), [boredom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/boredom.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.

[Anne Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte.md) · [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/to-regret-the.md)

Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> There is perfect love in heaven!

[Anne Brontë](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte.md) · [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-bronte/the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall/there-is-perfect.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> "Stalin found out about the community and sent his thugs in, just a few days before I got there, to break all of their arms! That was worse than killing them! It was a horrible sight, Oskar: their arms in crude splints, straight in front of them like zombies! They couldn't feed themselves, because they couldn't get their hands to their mouths! So you know what they did!" "They starved?" "They fed each other! That's the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!" I don't believe in the afterlife." "Neither do I, but I believe in the story."

[Jonathan Safran Foer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer.md) · [Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close.md) · p. 142 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jonathan-safran-foer/extremely-loud-and-incredibly-close/stalin-found-out.md)

Topics: [hell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hell.md), [helping others](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/helping-others.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> Nightmare in paradise. Or what could have been paradise if so many human beings did not insist on make in a hell of it.

[Philip José Farmer](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer.md) · [The Dark Design](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-dark-design.md) · p. 64 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/philip-jose-farmer/the-dark-design/nightmare-in-paradise.md)

Topics: [hell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hell.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> “The point is: what happens in heaven?”
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> “Unknowable wonderfulness?”
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> “Nonsense. The answer is nothing. Nothing can happen because if something happens, in fact if something can happen, then it doesn’t represent eternity. Our lives are about development, mutation and the possibility of change; that is almost a definition of what life is: change.”
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> “Have you always thought that?”
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> If you disable change, if you effectively stop time, if you prevent the possibility of the alteration of an individual’s circumstances—and that must include at least the possibility that they alter for the worse—then you don’t have life after death; you just have death.”
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> “There are those who believe that after death the soul is recreated into another being.”
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> “That is conservative and a little stupid, certainly, but not actually idiotic.”
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> “And there are those who believe that, upon death, the soul is allowed to create its own universe.”
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> “Monomaniacal and laughable as well as provably wrong.”
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> “There there are those who believe that the soul—”
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> “Well, there are all sorts of different beliefs. However, the ones that interest me are those concerning the idea of heaven. That’s the idiocy it annoys me that others cannot see.”

[Iain M. Banks](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks.md) · [Look To Windward](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/look-to-windward.md) · p. 229 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/iain-m-banks/look-to-windward/the-point-is-what.md)

Topics: [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md), [eternity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/eternity.md)

> All the same, there is a difficulty. I should like him to be happy in heaven here,
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> But he cannot come by wishing. Only by being already at home here.

[Stevie Smith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stevie-smith.md) · [Selected Poems](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stevie-smith/selected-poems.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stevie-smith/selected-poems/all-the-same.md)

Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> A book, a woman, and a flask of wine:
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> The three make heaven for me; it may be thine
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> Is some sour place of singing cold and bare —
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> But then, I never said thy heaven was mine.

[Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam.md) · [Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam.md) · p. 32 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/a-book-a-woman.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [reading](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/reading.md), [alcohol](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/alcohol.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
>
> Some letter of that After-life to spell:
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> And by and by my Soul return'd to me,
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> And answer'd "I Myself am Heav'n and Hell."

[Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam.md) · [Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/i-sent-my-soul.md)

Topics: [soul](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/soul.md), [hell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hell.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire,
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> And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire,
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> Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves,
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> So late emerged from, shall so soon expire.

[Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam.md) · [Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/heavn-but-the.md)

Topics: [sexual desire](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/sexual-desire.md), [hell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hell.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
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> A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou
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> Beside me singing in the Wilderness —
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> Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

[Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam.md) · [Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/a-book-of-verses.md)

Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [poetry](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/poetry.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> "How sweet is mortal Sovranty!"—think some:
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> Others — "How blest the Paradise to come!"
>
> Ah, take the Cash in hand and wave the Rest;
>
> Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum!

[Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam.md) · [Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/how-sweet-is-mortal.md)

Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [the present](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-present.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> Some for the Glories of This World; and some
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> Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;
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> Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
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> Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!

[Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam.md) · [Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/omar-khayyam/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/some-for-the.md)

Topics: [the present](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-present.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> 'Nobody can stay in the garden of Eden,' Jacques said. And then: 'I wonder why.'
>
> I have thought about Jacques' question since. Everyone, after all, goes the same dark road — and the road has a trick of being most dark, most treacherous, when it seems most bright — and it's true that nobody stays in the garden of Eden. Perhaps everybody has a garden of Eden, I don't know; but they have scarcely seen their garden before they see the flaming sword. Then, perhaps, life only offers the choice of remembering the garden or forgetting it. Either, or.

[James Baldwin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-baldwin.md) · [Giovanni's Room](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-baldwin/giovannis-room.md) · p. 22 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/james-baldwin/giovannis-room/nobody-can-stay.md)

Topics: [innocence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/innocence.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> Ah well. Heaven is a state of mind. I knew that now.

[David Brin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin.md) · [Kil’n People](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/kiln-people.md) · p. 566 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-brin/kiln-people/ah-well-heaven.md)

Topics: [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

[E.M. Forster](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster.md) · [Maurice](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/maurice.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/em-forster/maurice/after-all-is-not.md)

Topics: [hell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hell.md), [authenticity](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/authenticity.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> "That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays."

[Mitch Albom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mitch-albom.md) · [The Five People You Meet in Heaven](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mitch-albom/the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mitch-albom/the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven/thats-what-heaven.md)

Topics: [the past](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/the-past.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> People think of heaven as a paradise garden, a place where they can float on clouds and laze in rivers and mountains. But scenery without solace is meaningless.

[Mitch Albom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mitch-albom.md) · [The Five People You Meet in Heaven](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mitch-albom/the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mitch-albom/the-five-people-you-meet-in-heaven/people-think-of-heaven.md)

Topics: [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> Hell is when we look back during that fraction of a second and know that we wasted an opportunity to dignify the miracle of life. Paradise is being able to say at that moment: “I made some mistakes, but I wasn’t a coward. I lived my life and did what I had to do.” However, there’s no need to anticipate my particular hell and keep going over and over the fact that I can make no further progress in what I understand to be my “Spiritual Quest.” It’s enough that I keep trying. Even those who didn’t do all they could have done have already been forgiven; they had their punishment while they were alive by being unhappy when they could have been living in peace and harmony. We are all redeemed and free to follow the path that has no beginning and will have no end.

[Paulo Coelho](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho.md) · [Aleph](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/aleph.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/paulo-coelho/aleph/hell-is-when.md)

Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [hell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hell.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it shows itself cloddish.

[Evelyn Waugh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh.md) · [Put Out More Flags](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/put-out-more-flags.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/put-out-more-flags/the-human-mind.md)

Topics: [imagination](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/imagination.md), [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md)

> It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.

[Evelyn Waugh](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh.md) · [Put Out More Flags](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/put-out-more-flags.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/evelyn-waugh/put-out-more-flags/it-is-a-curious.md)

Topics: [paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/paradise.md), [utopia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/utopia.md)