#paradise

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words) ↗

— John Newton

#heaven #last-words #life #paradise #death

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light. ↗

— John Milton

#horror

The bird of paradise alights only upon the hand that does not grasp. ↗

— John Berry

#does #grasp #hand #only #paradise

To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in. ↗

— Charles Godfrey Leland

#could #find #him #led #never

Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise. ↗

— Novalis

#center #every #object #paradise #point

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap. ↗

— Hakeem Olajuwon

#comes #first #god #paradise

Marx was fortunate to have been born eighty years before Walt Disney. Disney also promised a child's paradise and unlike Marx, delivered on his promise. ↗

— John Ralston Saul

#been #before #born #child #delivered

An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise. ↗

— Robert South

#aristotle #athens #paradise #rubbish #rudiments

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

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#i #i am #look #me #paradise

You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her silver armor. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#gates-of-paradise #melissa-de-la-cruz #oliver-hazard-perry #tragic #warrior