If we seek paradise outside ourselves, we cannot have paradise in our hearts.
—Thomas Merton
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
—William Makepeace Thackeray
The only paradise is paradise lost.
—Marcel Proust
To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there.
—Vita Sackville-West
Traveling is a fool's paradise. . . . I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.
—Voltaire
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
—Joni Mitchell
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
—Laurie Anderson