#paradise

The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#back #been #condemned #decision #departure

Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell. ↗

— Karl Popper

#earth #hell #never #paradise #produced

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

I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I never spent so pleasant a month before, or bade any place goodbye so regretfully. I have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness, and the memory of it will remain with me always. ↗

— Mark Twain

#memory #paradise #business

...Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative... ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#freedom

God hides the fires of hell within paradise. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#god #hell #irony #paradise #paulo-coelho

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. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#achievement #among #asserted #commonly #english